S18-093B Systems and Methods for Activation Functions for Photonic Neural Networks Stanford researchers have developed an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical neural networks. Shanhui Fan Tyler Hughes Momchil Minkov Ian Williamson
S17-427 A Photonic Crystal Slab Laplace Differentiator Stanford researchers have developed a high throughput, low energy consumption, optical method for real-time, image differentiation (image sharpening) using a photonic crystal slab. Cheng Guo Shanhui Fan Yu Shi Meng Xiao Momchil Minkov