Paper 14090-28
Neuromorphic computing with large-area VCSELs (Invited Paper)
14 April 2026 • 08:30 - 09:00 CEST | Leicester/Salon 12 (Niveau/Level 1)
Abstract
I review the use of large-area VCSELs in neuromorphic computing and I explore the prospects of co-integration with linear PICs for scalable photonic integrated computing systems.
Presenter
Univ. of Strathclyde (United Kingdom)
I received my PhD degree in Physics from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) in 2015. There I studied the nonlinear dynamics of delay-coupled semiconductor lasers with application to secure communications. From 2016 to 2018 I was postdoctoral researcher with the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) working on external optical coupling of quantum-dot microlasers for nanophotonic applications. From 2019 to 2022 I was Marie-Curie fellow at the FEMTO-ST Institute in Besançon (France) working on photonic spatio-temporal neural networks and additive manufacturing of CMOS compatible integrated photonic components. In 2022 I was awarded a Chancellor's Fellowship by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (Scotland, UK). As a result of this award I started working from November 2022 as a Lecturer at Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics. My current research interests cover complex laser dynamics, hybrid optoelectronic integration and photonic information processing.