Optical reservoir computing for high-dimensional spatio-temporal chaotic systems prediction (Conference Presentation)

There have been a number of rapid advances in the prediction of the dynamics of chaotic systems using a technique known as Reservoir Computing. These techniques are mostly not effective for large networks, as the complexity of the task increases quadratically both in time and memory. We report new advances in Optical Reservoir Computing using multiple light scattering to accelerate the recursive computation of the reservoir states. Different approaches to information encoding based on phase or amplitude spatial light modulations are compared. We demonstrate the scalability and the good prediction performance of our approach using the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation as an example of a spatiotemporally chaotic system.