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SUBMITTER: Hu W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4879568 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hu Wenchao W Wu Kan K Shum Perry Ping PP Zheludev Nikolay I NI Soci Cesare C
Scientific reports 20160525
We report all-optical implementation of the optimization algorithm for the famous "ant colony" problem. Ant colonies progressively optimize pathway to food discovered by one of the ants through identifying the discovered route with volatile chemicals (pheromones) secreted on the way back from the food deposit. Mathematically this is an important example of graph optimization problem with dynamically changing parameters. Using an optical network with nonlinear waveguides to represent the graph an ...[more]