Title
Supervised Learning Of An Opto-Magnetic Neural Network With Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Abstract
The explosive growth of data and its related energy consumption is pushing the need to develop energy-efficient brain-inspired schemes and materials for data processing and storage. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that Co/Pt films can be used as artificial synapses by manipulating their magnetization state using circularly polarized ultrashort optical pulses at room temperature. We also show an efficient implementation of supervised perceptron learning on an opto-magnetic neural network, built from such magnetic synapses. Importantly, we demonstrate that the optimization of synaptic weights can be achieved using a global feedback mechanism, such that the learning does not rely on external storage or additional optimization schemes. These results suggest that there is high potential for realizing artificial neural networks using optically controlled magnetization in technologically relevant materials, which can learn not only fast but also energy-efficient.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1063/1.5087648
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
114
19
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0003-6951
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arghya Chakravarty100.34
J. H. Mentink200.34
C. S. Davies300.34
Kazuki Yamada400.34
A. V. Kimel500.68
Th. Rasing600.34