Abstract

Photonic nonlinear transient computing (NTC) [1,2,3] is a physical implementation, in optics, of a novel brain inspired computational paradigm, also referred as to Echo State Network (ESN[4]), or Liquid State Machine (LSM[5]) and Reservoir Computing (RC[6]) in the early literature. The particular approach which very recently led to the first photonic demonstrations[1,3], have been using the dynamical complexity developed by nonlinear delay optoelectronic oscillators, instead of that of a spatially extended network of dynamical nodes (as usual in neural network computing).

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