{"id":180888,"date":"2024-01-19T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-compute-with-light-inside-hair-thin-optical-fiber"},"modified":"2024-01-19T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:24:21","slug":"scientists-compute-with-light-inside-hair-thin-optical-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-compute-with-light-inside-hair-thin-optical-fiber","title":{"rendered":"Scientists compute with light inside hair-thin optical fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-compute-with-light-inside-hair-thin-optical-fiber2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, have found a powerful new way to program optical circuits that are critical to the delivery of future technologies such as unhackable communications networks and ultrafast quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLight can carry a lot of information, and optical circuits that compute with light\u2014instead of electricity\u2014are seen as the next big leap in computing technology,\u201d explains Professor Mehul Malik, an experimental physicist and Professor of Physics at Heriot-Watt\u2019s School of Engineering and Physical Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as optical circuits get bigger and more complex, they\u2019re harder to control and make\u2014and this can affect their performance. Our research shows an alternative\u2014and more versatile\u2014way of engineering optical circuits, using a process that occurs naturally in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, have found a powerful new way to program optical circuits that are critical to the delivery of future technologies such as unhackable communications networks and ultrafast quantum computers. \u201cLight can carry a lot of information, and optical circuits that compute with light\u2014instead of electricity\u2014are seen as the next [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180888","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}