• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 2, 347 (2023)
Junwei Cheng1、2、†, Zhenming He1、2、†, Yuhao Guo3、†, Bo Wu1、2, Hailong Zhou1、2, Teyan Chen3, Yixin Wu3, Wenwei Xu4、5、*, Jianji Dong1、2、6、*, and Xinliang Zhang1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Optics Valley Laboratory, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 3Galileo Advanced Technology Lab, Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen 518129, China
  • 4Institute of Strategic Research, Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen 518129, China
  • 5e-mail: xuwenwei@huawei.com
  • 6e-mail: jjdong@mail.hust.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.478370 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Junwei Cheng, Zhenming He, Yuhao Guo, Bo Wu, Hailong Zhou, Teyan Chen, Yixin Wu, Wenwei Xu, Jianji Dong, Xinliang Zhang. Self-calibrating microring synapse with dual-wavelength synchronization[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(2): 347 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    As a resonator-based optical hardware in analog optical computing, a microring synapse can be straightforwardly configured to simulate the connection weights between neurons, but it faces challenges in precision and stability due to cross talk and environmental perturbations. Here, we propose and demonstrate a self-calibration scheme with dual-wavelength synchronization to monitor and calibrate the synaptic weights without interrupting the computation tasks. We design and fabricate an integrated 4×4 microring synapse and deploy our self-calibration scheme to validate its effectiveness. The precision and robustness are evaluated in the experiments with favorable performance, achieving 2-bit precision improvement and excellent robustness to environmental temperature fluctuations (the weights can be corrected within 1 s after temperature changes 0.5°C). Moreover, we demonstrate matrix inversion tasks based on Newton iterations beyond 7-bit precision using this microring synapse. Our scheme provides an accurate and real-time weight calibration independently parallel from computations and opens up new perspectives for precision boost solutions to large-scale analog optical computing.
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    Junwei Cheng, Zhenming He, Yuhao Guo, Bo Wu, Hailong Zhou, Teyan Chen, Yixin Wu, Wenwei Xu, Jianji Dong, Xinliang Zhang. Self-calibrating microring synapse with dual-wavelength synchronization[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(2): 347
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