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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 287, 2023
EOS Annual Meeting (EOSAM 2023)
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Article Number | 13003 | |
Number of page(s) | 2 | |
Section | Focused Sessions (FS) 4- Machine Learning and Photonic Artificial Intelligence / Optical Neural Networks and Neuromorphic Computing | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328713003 | |
Published online | 18 October 2023 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328713003
Solitonic Neural Network: A novel approach of Photonic Artificial Intelligence based on photorefractive solitonic waveguides
Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Scarpa 16, 00161, Rome, Italy.
* Corresponding author: alessandro.bile@uniroma1.it
Published online: 18 October 2023
Neuromorphic models are proving capable of performing complex machine learning tasks, overcoming the structural limitations imposed by software systems and electronic neuromorphic models. Unlike computers, the brain uses a unified geometry whereby memory and computation occur in the same physical location. The neuromorphic approach tries to reproduce the functional blocks of biological neural networks. In the photonics field, one possible and efficient way is to use integrated circuits based on soliton waveguides, ie channels self-written by light. Thanks to the nonlinearity of some crystals, propagating light can write waveguides and then can modulate them according to the information it carries. Thus, the created structures are not static but they can self-modify by varying the input information pattern. These hardware systems show a neuroplasticity which is very close to the one which characterize the brain functioning. The solitonic neuromorphic paradigm this work introduces is based on X-junction solitonic neurons as the fundamental elements for complex neural networks. These solitonic units are able to learn information both in supervised and unsupervised ways by unbalancing the X-junction. The storage of information coincides with the evolution of structure that changes plastically. Thus, complex solitonic networks can store information as propagation trajectories and use them for reasoning.
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