A Photonic Implementation of Reservoir Computing

Reservoir Computing[1] is a new approach to study and use Neural Networks, which try to mimic a brain-like intelligence. It uses memory and feedback in the reservoir to extract time correlated features and in this why it can solve complex classification and recognition tasks like speech processing[2]. This has already been realized using software but a hardware implementation needs yet to be realized. Photonics offers a good perspective to achieve this fast and economic