General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-25-0744
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
Photonic Spiking Neural Networks based on Q-switched laser integrated on Silicon
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Neuromorphic networks for signal and information processing have acquired recently a renewed interest considering the more and more complex tasks that have to be solved automatically in current applications: speech recognition, dynamic image correlation, rapid decision processing integrating a plurality of information sources, behavior optimization, etc… Several types of neuromorphic networks do exist and, among them, the spiking type (SNN), that is, the one closest in behavior to the natural cortical neurons. SNN are the ones who seem to be able to offer a best energy efficiency and thus offer scalability. Several demonstrations have been made in this domain with electronic circuits and more recently with photonic circuits. For these, the dense integration potential of silicon photonics is a real advantage to create complex and highly connected circuits susceptible to lead to complete demonstrations. The PhD goal is to exploit a photonics spiking neuromorphic network architecture based on pulsed (Q-switched) lasers interconnected by a dense and reconfigurable optical network on chip mimicking the synaptic connections. A complete laser, neuron then circuit model is expected with, in the end, the practical demonstration of an application in mathematical data processing (to be defined).
University / doctoral school
Ondes et Matière (EDOM)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Grenoble
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
CHARBONNIER Benoit
benoit.charbonnier@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DOPT//LIPS
CEA - LETI
17, rue des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cédex
France
0438780162
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
BARBAY Sylvain
sylvain.barbay@c2n.upsaclay.fr
Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N)
10 Boulevard Thomas Gobert
91120 Palaiseau
France
01 70 27 04 51
En savoir plus
http://www.leti-cea.fr/cea-tech/leti/Pages/Accueil.aspx