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Material Demands for Optical Neural Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2013

Dana Z. Anderson
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From the time of their conception, holography and holograms have evolved as a metaphor for human memory. Holograms can be made so that the information they contain is distributed throughout the holographic medium—destroy part of the hologram and the stored information remains wholly intact, except for a loss of detail. In this property holograms evidently have something in common with human memory, which is to some extent resilient against physical damage to the brain. There is much more to the metaphor than simply that information is stored in a distributed manner.

Research in the optics community is now looking to holography, in particular dynamic holography, not only for information storage, but for information processing as well. The ideas are based upon neural network models. Neural networks are models for processing that are inspired by the apparent architecture of the brain. This is a processing paradigm that is new to optics. From within this network paradigm we look to build machines that can store and recall information associatively, play back a chain of recorded events, undergo learning and possibly forgetting, make decisions, adapt to a particular environment, and self-organize to evolve some desirable behavior. We hope that neural network models will give rise to optical machines for memory, speech processing, visual processing, language acquisition, motor control, and so on.

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Photonic Materials
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 8 , August 1988 , pp. 30 - 35
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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