All-optical reservoir computing

Opt Express. 2012 Sep 24;20(20):22783-95. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.022783.

Abstract

Reservoir Computing is a novel computing paradigm that uses a nonlinear recurrent dynamical system to carry out information processing. Recent electronic and optoelectronic Reservoir Computers based on an architecture with a single nonlinear node and a delay loop have shown performance on standardized tasks comparable to state-of-the-art digital implementations. Here we report an all-optical implementation of a Reservoir Computer, made of off-the-shelf components for optical telecommunications. It uses the saturation of a semiconductor optical amplifier as nonlinearity. The present work shows that, within the Reservoir Computing paradigm, all-optical computing with state-of-the-art performance is possible.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computing Methodologies*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Optical Devices*
  • Semiconductors*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*