Neuromorphic Networks Based on Sparse Optical Orthogonal Codes

Synthetic neural nets[1,2] represent an active and growing research field. Fundamental issues, as well as practical implementations with electronic and optical devices are being studied. In addition, several learning algorithms have been studied, for example stochastically adaptivesystems[3] based on many-body physics optimization concepts[4,5]. Signal processing in the optical domain has also been an active field of research. A wide variety of nonlinear all-optical devices are being studied, directed towards applications bothin optical computating and in optical switching.