We always hear that future computers will use optical technology. But what will that look like for a general-purpose computer? German researchers explain it in a recent scientific paper.

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are a class of mathematical problems that represent the interplay of multiple variables ...

The study authors have created a design architecture, called diffraction casting. They claim this method can bring us closer to unlocking the full potential of optical computing. To understand the ...

Leveraging the optical computing architecture of S-DNN, the all-optical DOA sensing latency is reduced by over 2–4 orders of magnitude compared to the most advanced radio frequency direction ...

"This discovery is a key enabling technology toward a faster, more efficient, and more scalable optical computing architecture that can be directly programmed with CMOS (complementary metal-oxide ...

The optical computing market is young but promising ... clock speed on microchips to bottlenecks in the prevalent computer architecture (with its requirements for constant data transport between ...

For optical computing to happen, though, the well-established architecture of digital electronic processing would have to be replaced by equivalent optical components. Or maybe not. For some ...

Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power efficiency but has yet to be realized due to constraints and drawbacks. A new design architecture, called diffraction casting ...

For this demonstration we implemented a URISC architecture capable of running any classical piece of software all-optically and present a comprehensive architectural framework for all-optical ...

Optical techniques adopted in optical computing rely on spatial multiplexing, requiring numerous integrated elements and restricting the architecture to perform a single kernel convolution per layer.