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ArticleNature communications2025

Ultrafast neural sampling with spiking nanolasers.

Ivan K Boikov, Alfredo de Rossi, Mihai A Petrovici

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Ivan K BoikovThales Research & Technology, Palaiseau, France. mail@ikboikov.net.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1901-0159
Alfredo de RossiThales Research & Technology, Palaiseau, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9769-7905
Mihai A PetroviciDepartment of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2632-0427

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) INFERNOEC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 101147319EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 860360
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Owing to their significant advantages in terms of bandwidth, power efficiency, and latency, optical neuromorphic systems have arisen as interesting alternatives to digital electronic devices. Recently, photonic crystal nanolasers with excitable behavior were first demonstrated. Depending on the pumping strength, they emit short optical pulses - spikes - at various intervals on a nanosecond timescale. In this theoretical work, we show how networks of such photonic spiking neurons can be used for Bayesian inference through sampling from learned probability distributions. We provide a detailed derivation of translation rules from conventional sampling networks, such as Boltzmann machines, to photonic spiking networks and demonstrate their functionality across a range of generative tasks. Finally, we provide estimates of processing speed and power consumption, for which we expect improvements of several orders of magnitude over current state-of-the-art neuromorphic systems.

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PMCPMC12775008

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