I'm not knowledgeable beyond the conceptual level of how light-based computing works. I remember reading and understanding that one of the biggest limitations of light-based computing until this day is that it takes a large amount of space to trap light, magnitudes more than our smallest electrically based chips and their bits.
I could definitely use some help with these questions:
- Does this mean it can do one-pass computing through different optical techniques that filter the light so that we can actually use the individual photon wavelengths for computing?
- Can we use this to store light more efficiently?
This is exciting news beyond artificial intelligence in my opinion, but I have to kinda be somewhat self-critical and acknowledge that I don't for sure understand the level of this breakthrough. It's often more layered than tech news make it out to be.
The paper is here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251115095923.htm
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-ai-possibility.html
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I put my thoughts in the description. I’ll post my questions for consideration here again (I get paranoid with rules):
1. Does this mean it can do one-pass computing through different optical techniques that filter the light so that we can actually use the individual photon wavelengths for computing?
2. Can we use this to store light more efficiently?
So what are the thoughts of the folks here?