Self-configuring optical devices automatically learn how to sort out light

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...
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Breakthrough optical processor lets AI compute at the speed of light

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...
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Light-powered chip makes AI 100 times more efficient

Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for a ...
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All-optical chip achieves 100-fold speed boost over top-tier NVIDIA chips

Scientists in China have unveiled a new AI chip called LightGen that is 100 times faster and 100 times more energy efficient than NVIDIA chips, the leading supplier of AI chips worldwide. Instead of ...
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Beyond Entanglement Routing: Source Assignment and All-Optical Switching-Based Distribution

Abstract: Entanglement routing plays a vital role in distributed quantum computing and quantum networks. Previous works on entanglement routing have addressed several design challenges due to limited ...
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Optical IRS for Visible Light Communication: From Optics Model to Association Model

Abstract: Optical intelligent reflecting surface (OIRS) offers a new and effective approach to resolving the line-of-sight blockage issue in visible light communication (VLC) by enabling redirection ...