The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

Past and Future Page 1 32 OPTICS & PHOTONICS NEWS JUNE 2016 Ravi Athale and
Demetri Psaltis iStock / Petrovich9 OPTICAL COMPUTING Past and Future Page 2 33 …

Optical computing is a very interesting 60‐year old field of research. This paper gives a brief
historical review of the life of optical computing from the early days until today. Optical …

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Optical computing and optical neural network have gained increasing attention in recent
years because of their potential advantages of parallel processing at the speed of light and …

For many years, optics has been employed in computing, although the major focus has been
and remains to be on connecting parts of computers, for communications, or more …

Optical qubits uniquely combine information transfer in optical fibers with a good processing
capability and are therefore attractive tools for quantum technologies. A large challenge …

From the Publisher: A source on the rapidly changing field of optical computing. Readers are
taken through the relevant concepts of classical and Fourier optics, digital logic and digital …

There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

Quantum information processing offers fundamental improvements over classical
information processing, such as computing power, secure communication, and high …