title: All-optical reservoir computing.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby 2800, Denmark.
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Duport
authors.forename: Bendix
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Anteo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smerieri
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haelterman
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Massar
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003205:Computing Methodologies; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D055096:Optical Devices; D012666:Semiconductors; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*