High-speed all-optical pattern recognition of dispersive Fourier images through a photonic reservoir computing subsystem

Opt Lett. 2015 Jul 15;40(14):3416-9. doi: 10.1364/OL.40.003416.

Abstract

In this Letter, we present and fully model a photonic scheme that allows the high-speed identification of images acquired through the dispersive Fourier technique. The proposed setup consists of a photonic reservoir-computing scheme that is based on the nonlinear response of randomly interconnected InGaAsP microring resonators. This approach allowed classification errors of 0.6%, whereas it alleviates the need for complex high-cost optoelectronic sampling and digital processing.