Non-linear effects in silicon photonics microring for reservoir computing: modeling and experiments

We investigate how the non-linearities in silicon micro-rings can be exploited for reservoir computing. We present modelling and experiments helpful to predict the performance of the ring pumped by a pump signal that contains the data trace for classification tasks.We analyse how recombination of free carriers via silicon traps determines the carrier lifetime and hence the processing speed and investigate what is the optimal pump level to optimize the decision accuracy.