Optical Processor

Optical processors leverage the speed and energy efficiency of light to perform computations, aiming to overcome limitations of electronic processors in areas like artificial intelligence and high-speed communications. Current research focuses on developing and optimizing various architectures, including diffractive optical networks, fiber neural networks, and hybrid digital-analog systems, often employing deep learning for design and training. This field is significant for its potential to accelerate large-scale computations, improve energy efficiency in data processing, and enable new applications in areas such as image processing, signal processing, and neural network inference.