Experimental Investigation of a Neuromorphic Accelerator based on Reconfigurable Photonic Chip for High-Speed Image Processing
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Tsirigotis, Aris; Sarantoglou, George; Deligiannidis, Stavros; Sanchez, Erica; Sanchez, David; Gutierrez, Ana; Bogris, Adonis; Capmany, Jose; Mesaritakis, Charis
Abstract:
We propose a neuromorphic accelerator based on a reconfigurable photonic mesh functioning as an analog convolutional engine. Experimental results demonstrate a 97.7% accuracy on the MNIST dataset, surpassing state-of-the-art photonic accelerators while consuming 34% less power than GPUbased digital convolutional neural networks.