[S2] Photonic Computing Solving the Bottleneck of Von-Neumann Computing

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM JST(1:00 AM - 1:30 AM UTC)

[S2-3] Photonic spiking neural network based on coupled optical parametric oscillators

○Takahiro Inagaki¹, Kensuke Inaba¹, Yasuhiro Yamada¹, Toshimori Honjo¹, Takuya Ikuta¹, Yuya Yonezu¹, Takushi Kazama², Koji Enbutsu², Takeshi Umeki², Ryoichi Kasahara², Kazuyuki Aihara³, Hiroki Takesue¹ (1. NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation (Japan), 2. NTT Device Technology Laboratories, NTT Corporation (Japan), 3. International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo (Japan))

Photonic spiking neurons, capable of representing fundamental spiking modes of class-I and class-II neurons, were employed to solve combinatorial optimization problems of the Ising model by selectively flipping spins based on local energy.