Continuous and long-term stabilization of degenerate optical parametric oscillators for large-scale optical hybrid computers.

The minimum requirements for an optical reservoir computer, a recent paradigm for computation using simple algorithms, are nonlinearity and internal interactions. A promising optical system satisfying these requirements is a platform based on coupled degenerate optical parametric oscillators (DOPOs) in a fiber ring cavity. We can expect advantages using DOPOs for reservoir computing with respect to scalability and reduction of excess noise; however, the continuous stabilization required for reservoir computing has not yet been demonstrated. Here, we report the continuous and long-term stabilization of an optical system by introducing periodical phase modulation patterns for DOPOs and a local oscillator. We observed that the Allan variance of the optical phase up to 100 ms was suppressed and that the homodyne measurement signal had a relative standard deviation of 1.4% over 62,500 round trips. The proposed methods represent important technical bases for realizing stable computation on large-scale optical hybrid computers.

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