Implementation of Optical Deep Neural Networks using the Fabry-Perot Interferometer
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Future developments in deep learning applications requiring large datasets will be limited by power and speed limitations of silicon based Von-Neumann computing architectures. Optical architectures provide a low power and high speed hardware alternative. Recent publications have suggested promising implementations of optical neural networks (ONNs), showing huge orders of magnitude efficiency and speed gains over current state of the art hardware alternatives. In this work, the transmission of the Fabry-Perot Inferometer (FPI) is proposed as a low power, low footprint activation function unit. Numerical simulations of optical CNNs using the FPI based activation functions show accuracies of 98 physical implementation of the network shows that an ONN based on current tunable FPIs could be slowed by actuation delays, but rapidly developing optical hardware fabrication techniques could make an integrated approach using the proposed FPI setups a powerful solution for previously inaccessible deep learning applications.
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