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‘Multiplying’ light could be key to ultra-powerful optical computers – EurekAlert
New type of optical computing could solve highly complex problems that are out of reach for even the most powerful supercomputers.

IMAGE: Schematic of light pulse interactions as the proposed optical computer solves higher order binary optimisation problems. The light phases coming from several light pulses combine to change the phases of…
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Credit: Gleb Berloff
An important class of challenging computational problems, with applications in graph theory, neural networks, artificial intelligence and error-correcting codes can be solved by multiplying light signals, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge…
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