Self-Induced Optical Nonlinear-Nonlocal Effect and Short-Term Memory for Chip-Scale Reservoir Computing

Abstract

We demonstrate nonlinear and nonlocal optical phase change effects due to thermocapillary deformation of thin liquid film interacting with photonic mode in silicon photonic waveguide. The interaction allows storing information in the liquid film, achieving short term memory, and implementing compact chip-scale Reservoir Computing (RC)