Highly-parallel optical adaptive neural computers with layered and segmented structures

In order to make highly parallel large-scale optical adaptive neural computers for recognition, vision, and other man-machine interface applications, a new technological approach to all-optic neurons and adaptive synapses of layered and segmented neural architectures is approached. Basic optical elements will be used in the proposed three-layer segmented neural architecture in which many fully interconnected neural nets are systematically connected to realize large-scale tasks. In other words, three-layer segmented neural computers have the ability to perform large-scale tasks for which pure fully interconnected neural computers would be physically unsuitable because of size consideration.<>