title: Tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with feedback to implement a pulsed neural model. 1. Principles and experimental demonstration.
abstract: An optoelectronic implementation of a modified FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model is proposed, analyzed, and experimentally demonstrated. The setup uses linear optics and linear electronics for implementing an optical wavelength-domain nonlinearity. The system attains instability through a bifurcation mechanism present in a class of neuron models, a fact that is shown analytically. The implementation exhibits basic features of neural dynamics including threshold, production of short pulses (or spikes), and refractoriness.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, Universidade de Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil. romariz@ene.unb.br
authors.forename: Alexandre R S
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Romariz
authors.forename: Kelvin H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Wagner