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| author | McCaul, Gerard Tripathy, Girish Marcucci, Giulia Gongora, Juan Sebastian Totero |
| author_facet | McCaul, Gerard Tripathy, Girish Marcucci, Giulia Gongora, Juan Sebastian Totero |
| contents | Photonic Reservoir Computing (RC) systems leverage the complex propagation and nonlinear interaction of optical waves to perform information processing tasks. These systems employ a combination of optical data encoding (in the field amplitude and/or phase), random scattering, and nonlinear detection to generate nonlinear features that can be processed via a linear readout layer. In this work, we propose a novel scattering-assisted photonic reservoir encoding scheme where the input phase is deliberately wrapped multiple times beyond the natural period of the optical waves $[0,2π)$. We demonstrate that, rather than hindering nonlinear separability through loss of bijectivity, wrapping significantly improves the reservoir's prediction performance across regression and classification tasks that are unattainable within the canonical $2π$ period. We demonstrate that this counterintuitive effect stems from the nonlinear interference between sets of random synthetic frequencies introduced by the encoding, which generates a rich feature space spanning both the feature and sample dimensions of the data. Our results highlight the potential of engineered phase wrapping as a computational resource in RC systems based on phase encoding, paving the way for novel approaches to designing and optimizing physical computing platforms based on topological and geometric stretching. |
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| spellingShingle | Unwrapping photonic reservoirs: enhanced expressivity via random Fourier encoding over stretched domains McCaul, Gerard Tripathy, Girish Marcucci, Giulia Gongora, Juan Sebastian Totero Optics Quantum Physics Photonic Reservoir Computing (RC) systems leverage the complex propagation and nonlinear interaction of optical waves to perform information processing tasks. These systems employ a combination of optical data encoding (in the field amplitude and/or phase), random scattering, and nonlinear detection to generate nonlinear features that can be processed via a linear readout layer. In this work, we propose a novel scattering-assisted photonic reservoir encoding scheme where the input phase is deliberately wrapped multiple times beyond the natural period of the optical waves $[0,2π)$. We demonstrate that, rather than hindering nonlinear separability through loss of bijectivity, wrapping significantly improves the reservoir's prediction performance across regression and classification tasks that are unattainable within the canonical $2π$ period. We demonstrate that this counterintuitive effect stems from the nonlinear interference between sets of random synthetic frequencies introduced by the encoding, which generates a rich feature space spanning both the feature and sample dimensions of the data. Our results highlight the potential of engineered phase wrapping as a computational resource in RC systems based on phase encoding, paving the way for novel approaches to designing and optimizing physical computing platforms based on topological and geometric stretching. |
| title | Unwrapping photonic reservoirs: enhanced expressivity via random Fourier encoding over stretched domains |
| topic | Optics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01410 |