Integrated optical output layer for a reservoir computer based on frequency multiplexing
Tigers Jonuzi, Alessandro Lupo, Miguel C. Soriano, Jose David Domenech Gomez, Serge Massar · 2023
Reservoir Computers (RCs) are brain-inspired algorithms based on recurrent neural networks where only output weights are tuned, while internal weights remain untrained. We recently demonstrated a photonic frequency-multiplexing RC encoding neurons in the lines of a frequency comb. We also demonstrated a single-layer feed-forward neural network based on a similar frequency-multiplexing principle. Here we present the design for an integrated optical output layer for such frequency multiplexing based photonic neural networks. The all-optical output layer uses wavelength (de)multiplexers and wavelength converters to apply signed weights to neurons encoded in comb lines.