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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 1, 65(2023)

Experimental demonstration of coherent photonic neural computing based on a Fabry–Perot laser with a saturable absorber

Dianzhuang Zheng1, Shuiying Xiang1,2,6、*, Xingxing Guo1, Yahui Zhang1, Biling Gu1, Hongji Wang3, Zhenzhen Xu3, Xiaojun Zhu4, Yuechun Shi3,5,7、*, and Yue Hao2
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
  • 2State Key Discipline Laboratory of Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Technology, School of Microelectronics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Ministry of Education, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optical Communication Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 4School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China
  • 5Yongjiang Laboratory, Ningbo 315202, China
  • 6e-mail: syxiang@xidian.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: yuechun-shi@ylab.ac.cn
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    Dianzhuang Zheng, Shuiying Xiang, Xingxing Guo, Yahui Zhang, Biling Gu, Hongji Wang, Zhenzhen Xu, Xiaojun Zhu, Yuechun Shi, Yue Hao, "Experimental demonstration of coherent photonic neural computing based on a Fabry–Perot laser with a saturable absorber," Photonics Res. 11, 65 (2023)

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    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Aug. 1, 2022

    Accepted: Nov. 8, 2022

    Published Online: Dec. 21, 2022

    The Author Email: Shuiying Xiang (syxiang@xidian.edu.cn), Yuechun Shi (yuechun-shi@ylab.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.471950

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