title: All-optical reservoir computer based on saturation of absorption.
abstract: Reservoir computing is a new bio-inspired computation paradigm. It exploits a dynamical system driven by a time-dependent input to carry out computation. For efficient information processing, only a few parameters of the reservoir needs to be tuned, which makes it a promising framework for hardware implementation. Recently, electronic, opto-electronic and all-optical experimental reservoir computers were reported. In those implementations, the nonlinear response of the reservoir is provided by active devices such as optoelectronic modulators or optical amplifiers. By contrast, we propose here the first reservoir computer based on a fully passive nonlinearity, namely the saturable absorption of a semiconductor mirror. Our experimental setup constitutes an important step towards the development of ultrafast low-consumption analog computers.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dejonckheere
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Duport
authors.forename: Anteo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smerieri
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Jean-Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Oudar
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haelterman
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Massar