Fully analogue photonic reservoir computer

作者：François Duport, Anteo Smerieri, Akram Akrout, Marc Haelterman, Serge Massar · 发表于：Scientific Reports · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1038/srep22381 · 被引用次数：206 · 研究领域：Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing、Optical Network Technologies、Photonic and Optical Devices

Introduced a decade ago, reservoir computing is an efficient approach for signal processing. State of the art capabilities have already been demonstrated with both computer simulations and physical implementations. If photonic reservoir computing appears to be promising a solution for ultrafast nontrivial computing, all the implementations presented up to now require digital pre or post processing, which prevents them from exploiting their full potential, in particular in terms of processing speed. We address here the possibility to get rid simultaneously of both digital pre and post processing. The standalone fully analogue reservoir computer resulting from our endeavour is compared to previous experiments and only exhibits rather limited degradation of performances. Our experiment constitutes a proof of concept for standalone physical reservoir computers.