{"id":197002,"date":"2024-10-04T03:36:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T08:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/logic-with-light-introducing-diffraction-casting-optical-based-parallel-computing"},"modified":"2024-10-04T03:36:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T08:36:28","slug":"logic-with-light-introducing-diffraction-casting-optical-based-parallel-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/logic-with-light-introducing-diffraction-casting-optical-based-parallel-computing","title":{"rendered":"Logic with light: Introducing diffraction casting, optical-based parallel computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logic-with-light-introducing-diffraction-casting-optical-based-parallel-computing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s the smartphone in your pocket or the laptop on your desk, all current computer devices are based on electronic technology. But this has some inherent drawbacks; in particular, they necessarily generate a lot of heat, especially as they increase in performance, not to mention that fabrication technologies are approaching the fundamental limits of what is theoretically possible.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, researchers explore alternative ways to perform computation that can tackle these problems and ideally offer some new functionality or features too.<\/p>\n<p>One possibility lies in an idea that has existed for several decades but has yet to break through and become commercially viable, and that\u2019s in optical computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s the smartphone in your pocket or the laptop on your desk, all current computer devices are based on electronic technology. But this has some inherent drawbacks; in particular, they necessarily generate a lot of heat, especially as they increase in performance, not to mention that fabrication technologies are approaching the fundamental limits of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197002","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}