Using nonlinear optical networks for optimization: primer of the ant colony algorithm

• Main Authors: Zheludev, Nikolay I., Hu, Wenchao, Wu, Kan, Shum, Perry Ping, Soci, Cesare
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Optics In Computing; Optical Processing Devices; DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87611; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46800
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Using nonlinear Erbium doped optical fiber network we have implemented an optimization algorithm for the famous problem of finding the shortest path on the map for the ant colony to travel to the foraging area.