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Packet Header Recognition Utilizing an All-Optical Reservoir Based on Reinforcement-Learning- Optimized Double-Ring Resonators
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of. 29(6: Photonic Signal Processing):1-8 Jan, 2023
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical packet switching
Optical ring resonators
Reservoirs
Delays
Adaptive optics
Optical attenuators
Resonators
Packet header recognition
optical computing
optical reservoir
microring resonator
delay-bandwidth product
reinforcement learning
Language
ISSN
1077-260X
1558-4542
Abstract
Optical packet header recognition is an important signal processing task of optical communication networks. In this work, we propose an all-optical reservoir, consisting of integrated double-ring resonators (DRRs) as nodes, for fast and accurate optical packet header recognition. As the delay-bandwidth product (DBP) of the node is a key figure-of-merit in the reservoir, we adopt a deep reinforcement learning algorithm to maximize the DBPs for various types of DRRs, which has the advantage of full parameter space optimization and fast convergence speed. Intriguingly, the optimized DBPs of the DRRs in cascaded, parallel, and embedded configurations reach the same maximum value, which is believed to be the global maximum. Finally, 3-bit and 6-bit packet header recognition tasks are performed with the all-optical reservoir consisting of the optimized cascaded rings, which have greatly reduced chip size and the desired “flat-top” delay spectra. Using this optical computing scheme, word-error rates as low as 5×10 -4 and 9×10 -4 are achieved for 3-bit and 6-bit packet header recognition tasks, respectively, which are one order of magnitude better than the previously reported values.