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ReviewNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2022

Photonic neuromorphic technologies in optical communications.

Apostolos Argyris

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Review in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Compound meta-optics: there is plenty of room at the top.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
    Article
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  3. Neuromorphic Photonics Circuits: Contemporary Review.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
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  6. Deep learning in light-matter interactions.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2022
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Apostolos ArgyrisInstituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Campus UIB, Palma de Mallorca, 07122, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2847-7719

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Machine learning (ML) and neuromorphic computing have been enforcing problem-solving in many applications. Such approaches found fertile ground in optical communications, a technological field that is very demanding in terms of computational speed and complexity. The latest breakthroughs are strongly supported by advanced signal processing, implemented in the digital domain. Algorithms of different levels of complexity aim at improving data recovery, expanding the reach of transmission, validating the integrity of the optical network operation, and monitoring data transfer faults. Lately, the concept of reservoir computing (RC) inspired hardware implementations in photonics that may offer revolutionary solutions in this field. In a brief introduction, I discuss some of the established digital signal processing (DSP) techniques and some new approaches based on ML and neural network (NN) architectures. In the main part, I review the latest neuromorphic computing proposals that specifically apply to photonic hardware and give new perspectives on addressing signal processing in optical communications. I discuss the fundamental topologies in photonic feed-forward and recurrent network implementations. Finally, I review the photonic topologies that were initially tested for channel equalization benchmark tasks, and then in fiber transmission systems, for optical header recognition, data recovery, and modulation format identification.

Indexed as

fiber transmissionmachine learningneuromorphic computingoptical communicationsphotonic systemsreservoir computing

Identifiers

PMID39634468
PMCPMC11501306

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