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GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training

Optics 2025-06-18 v1

Abstract

Neuromorphic photonic computing represents a paradigm shift for next-generation machine intelligence, yet critical gaps persist in emulating the brain's event-driven, asynchronous dynamics,a fundamental barrier to unlocking its full potential. Here, we report a milestone advancement of a photonic spiking neural network (PSNN) chip, the first to achieve full-stack brain-inspired computing on a complementary metal oxide semiconductor-compatible silicon platform. The PSNN features transformative innovations of gigahertz-scale nonlinear spiking dynamics,in situ learning capacity with supervised synaptic plasticity, and informative event representations with retina-inspired spike encoding, resolving the long-standing challenges in spatiotemporal data integration and energy-efficient dynamic processing. By leveraging its frame-free, event-driven working manner,the neuromorphic optoelectronic system achieves 80% accuracy on the KTH video recognition dataset while operating at ~100x faster processing speeds than conventional frame-based approaches. This work represents a leap for neuromorphic computing in a scalable photonic platform with low latency and high throughput, paving the way for advanced applications in real-time dynamic vision processing and adaptive decision-making, such as autonomous vehicles and robotic navigation.

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@article{arxiv.2506.14272,
  title  = {GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training},
  author = {Jinlong Xiang and Xinyuan Fang and Jie Xiao and Youlve Chen and An He and Yaotian Zhao and Zhenyu Zhao and Yikai Su and Min Gu and Xuhan Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.14272},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages, 4 figures