Video: New Breakthrough: New Light-Based Computer Takes Over!

What is Light-Based Computing?

Also known as optical computing or photonic computing, light-based computing is the usage of photons (or light) from lasers or diodes for computational purposes. For the most part, electronics and computers utilize electrons for computation.

Optical computing leverages an optical transistor, as opposed to the electronic transistors that Moore’s Law refers to. While data is channeled through photons, today’s technology still relies on processing information using logic and electrons.

To make light-based computing fully functional, there need to be microchips that use photons instead of electrons (i.e. a laser transistor).

 

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