{"id":139211,"date":"2022-05-11T19:25:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T00:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/how-photonic-computers-could-use-light-instead-of-electricity"},"modified":"2022-05-11T19:25:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T00:25:19","slug":"how-photonic-computers-could-use-light-instead-of-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/how-photonic-computers-could-use-light-instead-of-electricity","title":{"rendered":"How \u201cPhotonic Computers\u201d Could Use Light Instead of Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-photonic-computers-could-use-light-instead-of-electricity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, scientists and engineers still haven\u2019t figured out how to replicate every computer component that currently exists within semiconductor processors. Computation is nonlinear. It requires that different signals interact with each other and change the outcomes of other components. You need to build logic gates in the same way that semiconductor transistors are used to create logic gates, but photons don\u2019t behave in a way that naturally works with this approach.<\/p>\n<p>This is where photonic logic comes into the picture. By using <a href=\"https:\/\/spie.org\/news\/1204-nonlinear-optics-simplified\">nonlinear optics<\/a> it\u2019s possible to build logic gates similar to those used in conventional processors. At least, in theory, it could be possible. There are many practical and technological hurdles to overcome before photonic computers play a significant role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of writing, scientists and engineers still haven\u2019t figured out how to replicate every computer component that currently exists within semiconductor processors. Computation is nonlinear. It requires that different signals interact with each other and change the outcomes of other components. You need to build logic gates in the same way that semiconductor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}