Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Chips as Dual-Purpose Neuromorphic Accelerators and Physical Unclonable Functions
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| author | Sarantoglou, George Da Ros, Francesco Sozos, Kostas Bogris, Adonis Mesaritakis, Charis |
| author_facet | Sarantoglou, George Da Ros, Francesco Sozos, Kostas Bogris, Adonis Mesaritakis, Charis |
| contents | In this work, we experimentally validate the dual use of a reconfigurable photonic integrated mesh as a neuromorphic accelerator, targeting signal equalization, and as a physical unclonable function offering authentication at the hardware level. The processing node is an optical spectrum slicing self-coherent transceiver targeting the mitigation of dispersion impairments of an intensity detected QPSK signal, after 25 km of transmission at 32 Gbaud. Unavoidable fabrication related imperfections of the nodes, such as waveguide roughness, can act as fingerprints of the device, and, during neuromorphic processing, result in unique weights at the digital back-end during signal equalization. Extracted security metrics offer low false positive/negative probability for the generated responses, confirming un-clonability, whereas bit-error-ratio for the QPSK equalization task was always below the hardware forward error correction limit. The experimental results substantiate the capability of the proposed scheme to simultaneously act as an accelerator and as a security token. |
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| spellingShingle | Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Chips as Dual-Purpose Neuromorphic Accelerators and Physical Unclonable Functions Sarantoglou, George Da Ros, Francesco Sozos, Kostas Bogris, Adonis Mesaritakis, Charis Optics In this work, we experimentally validate the dual use of a reconfigurable photonic integrated mesh as a neuromorphic accelerator, targeting signal equalization, and as a physical unclonable function offering authentication at the hardware level. The processing node is an optical spectrum slicing self-coherent transceiver targeting the mitigation of dispersion impairments of an intensity detected QPSK signal, after 25 km of transmission at 32 Gbaud. Unavoidable fabrication related imperfections of the nodes, such as waveguide roughness, can act as fingerprints of the device, and, during neuromorphic processing, result in unique weights at the digital back-end during signal equalization. Extracted security metrics offer low false positive/negative probability for the generated responses, confirming un-clonability, whereas bit-error-ratio for the QPSK equalization task was always below the hardware forward error correction limit. The experimental results substantiate the capability of the proposed scheme to simultaneously act as an accelerator and as a security token. |
| title | Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Chips as Dual-Purpose Neuromorphic Accelerators and Physical Unclonable Functions |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11448 |