title: Loop mirror laser neural network with a fast liquid-crystal display.
abstract: In our laser neural network (LNN) all-optical threshold action is obtained by application of controlled optical feedback to a laser diode. Here an extended experimental LNN is presented with as many as 32 neurons and 12 inputs. In the setup we use a fast liquid-crystal display to implement an optical matrix vector multiplier. This display, based on ferroelectric liquid-crystal material, enables us to present 125 training examples/s to the LNN. To maximize the optical feedback efficiency of the setup, a loop mirror is introduced. We use a delta-rule learning algorithm to train the network to perform a number of functions toward the application area of telecommunication data switching.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrotechnical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. mosec@natlab.research.philips.com
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Mos
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Schleipen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: de Waardt
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Khoe