Neuromorphic Photonics

A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 May 2025 | Viewed by 82

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: study and simulation of optoelectronics components; fiber Bragg gratings; integrated optics in sol-gel substrates; passive optical networks; big data processing
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Research on neuromorphic photonics has flourished due to the rapid increase in artificial neural network applications. The use of such hardware has the potential to address the growing demand for artificial intelligence. Neuromorphic photonics mimic the architectures and components of biological neural networks in the optical domain, aiming to emulate neuronal behaviour and overcome some of the challenges that traditional computing faces.

This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in integrated photonic neuromorphic systems, discussing current as well as future challenges and outlining the scientific in addition to technological advances needed to meet these challenges. We welcome a variety of meaningful and valuable manuscripts on neuromorphic photonics, including those related to materials, devices, and hardware architectures for implementing computing, neural sensing, and alternative neuromorphic paradigms. Submissions involving emerging unconventional technologies as candidate solutions for neuromorphic technologies will also be considered.

Prof. Dr. Paulo André
Prof. Dr. Rute A. S. Ferreira
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Keywords

  • neuromorphic engineering
  • photonics
  • artificial intelligence
  • brain-inspired computing
  • synaptic plasticity
  • optical neural networks

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