Reservoir Computing with Low-Power-Consumption All-Optical Nonlinear Activation Using Membrane SOA on Si
Takuma Tsurugaya, Tatsurou Hiraki, Mitsumasa Nakajima, Takuma Aihara, Nikolaos-Panteleimon Pandelis Diamantopoulos, Takuro Fujii, Toru Segawa, Shinji Matsuo · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2021
We demonstrate reservoir computing using a fiber delay line and membrane semiconductor optical amplifier on Si. Thanks to its small active volume and low fiber-coupling loss, the reservoir consumes only 43 mW for nonlinear activation.