SEPhIA: <1 laser/neuron Spiking Electro-Photonic Integrated Multi-Tiled Architecture for Scalable Optical Neuromorphic Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07427v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:24:29 GMT
• Title: SEPhIA: <1 laser/neuron Spiking Electro-Photonic Integrated Multi-Tiled Architecture for Scalable Optical Neuromorphic Computing
• Authors: Matěj Hejda, Aishwarya Natarajan, Chaerin Hong, Mehmet Berkay On, Sébastien d'Herbais de Thun, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh,
• Abstract summary: We introduce SEPhIA, a photonic-electronic, multi-tiled SNN architecture emphasizing implementation feasibility and realistic scaling.<n> SEPhIA leverages microring resonator modulators (MRMs) and multi-wavelength sources to achieve effective sub-one-laser-per-spiking neuron efficiency.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Research into optical spiking neural networks (SNNs) has primarily focused on spiking devices, networks of excitable lasers or numerical modelling of large architectures, often overlooking key constraints such as limited optical power, crosstalk and footprint. We introduce SEPhIA, a photonic-electronic, multi-tiled SNN architecture emphasizing implementation feasibility and realistic scaling. SEPhIA leverages microring resonator modulators (MRMs) and multi-wavelength sources to achieve effective sub-one-laser-per-spiking neuron efficiency. We validate SEPhIA at both device and architecture levels by time-domain co-simulating excitable CMOS-MRR coupled circuits and by devising a physics-aware, trainable optoelectronic SNN model, with both approaches utilizing experimentally derived device parameters. The multi-layer optoelectronic SNN achieves classification accuracies over 90% on a four-class spike-encoded dataset, closely comparable to software models. A design space study further quantifies how photonic device parameters impact SNN performance under constrained signal-to-noise conditions. SEPhIA offers a scalable, expressive, physically grounded solution for neuromorphic photonic computing, capable of addressing spike-encoded tasks.

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