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    • Photonics and Neuromorphic Engineering
    • Artificial Intelligence Hardware

    Background:

    • Neuronal bursts are crucial for information encoding and transmission in biological systems.
    • Advancements in photonic technologies enable the creation of artificial neurons mimicking brain functions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To demonstrate a bursting response in an artificial photonic neuron.
    • To showcase a controllable integrated encoding scheme based on bursts in photonic neurons.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a single vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) as the core of the artificial photonic neuron.
    • Employed modulated optical injection and a feedback structure to trigger and control bursting responses.
    • Leveraged polarization competition within the VCSEL to vary spike counts for encoding stimuli.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully activated a bursting response in the VCSEL-based photonic neuron, exhibiting neural signal characteristics like excitation threshold and refractory period.
    • Achieved a controllable integrated encoding scheme based on bursts, a first for photonic neurons.
    • Demonstrated a significantly diminished interspike interval (1/24th of optoelectronic oscillators) and a 70.8% shorter burst period compared to non-feedback VCSEL neurons.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed VCSEL-based photonic neuron effectively mimics biological neural bursting for information encoding.
    • This work presents a novel, fast, and controllable burst encoding scheme for photonic neurons.
    • The findings pave the way for optical systems significantly faster than biological counterparts, inspired by neural signal processing.