Light in Glass: Optical Fiber Learns to Read Digits ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Limits of nonlinear and dispersive fiber propagation for an optical fiber-based extreme learning machine"
Ordinary optical fiber, by pumping light, learned to recognize handwritten digits with 93% accuracy.
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Ordinary optical fiber, like in internet cables, has been taught to 'think.' By passing light through it, it recognizes handwritten digits almost flawlessly. In the future, such light-based circuits could work directly in communication lines, performing computations without bulky processors.
🎯 Ordinary telecom fiber lying on the ocean floor for internet can be turned into a trainable computer by simply passing cleverly encoded light through it. And to forget everything it learned, a single bright flash is enough — the fiber is ready to learn from scratch.