Bistable Spiking Circuit with Graphene Excitable Laser for Cascadable Photonic Logic

We demonstrate a photonic bistable spiking circuit with a graphene excitable laser for cascadable logic. This technology could be a potential candidate for applications in novel all optical devices for information processing and computing.

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