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Optical computing, where the base unit is a photon instead of an electron, is the future of all computing. Once optical computing becomes a reality, we will lo
by glitchc 4y ago
Optical computing, where the base unit is a photon instead of an electron, is the future of all computing.
Once optical computing becomes a reality, we will look fondly upon our quaint silicon devices. Optical computers capable of measuring interactions of single photons will eventually lead to quantum computing in all things.
Likely, quantum computing will be a dedicated core/unit in a heterogeneous optical computing architecture, as linear operations are still need to manage I/O, memory and peripherals (displays and what not).
- ta988 4y agoIt is more than likely that the devices will be photonic and electronic at the same time. A lot of things are much more efficient to do with electrons and electrical fields in lower frequency range than the photons ones.
- TechnicolorByte 4y agoAny examples for either case?
- dinkumthinkum 4y agoThis doesn’t sound like quantum computing at all.
- fooker 4y agoThere is a fundamental reason why this might not work out. We might be getting close to information theoretic and thermodynamic limits of computers with modern transistors. For example, photons don’t help if it’s theoretically impossible to dissipate heat any faster.