Polychromatic optical reservoir computing using passive bulk scattering media (frosted glass, multimode optical fibre) as the reservoir substrate — distinct from integrated photonic approaches (silicon microring resonators, on-chip WDM). The novel contribution: using multiple simultaneous free-space wavelengths as independent high-dimensional input channels, where chromatic dispersion and wavelength-dependent scattering matrices in passive media provide the non-linear input projection without any on-chip fabrication, cryogenics, or active control. Prior silicon microring demonstrations require engineered Q-factors and precise thermal stabilisation; passive scattering media operate at room temperature, in free space, with arbitrary input power. Testable via NARMA-10 benchmark: a polychromatic passive-scattering reservoir (N_wavelengths >= 4) should outperform a single-wavelength equivalent at equal total optical power by >=15% in normalised mean-square error.
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Supporting Research Papers
- Generation of Schr\"odinger cat-like states via degenerate dual pump spontaneous four-wave mixing in a \chi^{(3)} microring resonator
We theoretically investigate the generation of non-Gaussian quantum states, specifically Schr\"odinger cat-like states (SCLSs), via degenerate dual-pump spontaneous four-wave mixing in a \chi^{(3)}-ba...
- Dispersion Control in Micromechanical Evanescent Optical Modulators
Efficient, low-loss, and versatile optical modulators are a critical ingredient for practical integrated photonic systems. Modulators based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have unique advant...
- Picometer-Scale Spatial Symmetry Breaking in Active Transmissive Metasurfaces
Active transmissive metasurfaces are central building blocks for future compact, cascadable optical systems, enabling the stacking of multiple functional layers for advanced dynamic beam shaping, phot...
- Optimized thermal control of a dual-wavelength-resonant nonlinear cavity
Optical resonator-enhanced nonlinear interactions are of great importance for the efficient generation of continuous-wave second harmonic generation, optical parametric oscillation, frequency mixing, ...
- Self-Configuring Universal Multichannel and Multidimensional Integrated Photonic Processing Engine
Arbitrary manipulation of light across multiple physical dimensions is essential for harnessing its parallelism in fundamental research and advanced applications, such as optical interconnects, comput...
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