{"id":209908,"date":"2025-03-28T01:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/liquid-crystal-platform-overcomes-optical-losses-in-photonic-circuits"},"modified":"2025-03-28T01:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:18:47","slug":"liquid-crystal-platform-overcomes-optical-losses-in-photonic-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/liquid-crystal-platform-overcomes-optical-losses-in-photonic-circuits","title":{"rendered":"Liquid-crystal platform overcomes optical losses in photonic circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-crystal-platform-overcomes-optical-losses-in-photonic-circuits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photonic circuits, which manipulate light to perform various computational tasks, have become essential tools for a range of advanced technologies\u2014from quantum simulations to artificial intelligence. These circuits offer a promising way to process information with minimal energy loss, especially in fields like quantum computing where complex systems are simulated to test theories of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>However, the growth in circuit size and complexity has historically led to a rise in optical losses, making it challenging to scale these systems for large-scale applications, such as multiphoton quantum experiments or all-optical AI systems.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiedigitallibrary.org\/journals\/advanced-photonics\/volume-7\/issue-01\/016006\/Large-scale-free-space-photonic-circuits-in-two-dimensions\/10.1117\/1.AP.7.1.016006.full\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in <i>Advanced Photonics<\/i>, researchers at the University of Naples Federico II have now developed a new approach to address this problem. Using a liquid-crystal (LC)-based platform, the team designed an optical processor capable of handling hundreds of optical modes in a compact, two-dimensional setup. This breakthrough offers a solution to a key limitation in traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photonic+circuits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photonic circuits<\/a>, where losses increase as the number of modes grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photonic circuits, which manipulate light to perform various computational tasks, have become essential tools for a range of advanced technologies\u2014from quantum simulations to artificial intelligence. These circuits offer a promising way to process information with minimal energy loss, especially in fields like quantum computing where complex systems are simulated to test theories of quantum mechanics. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209908","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=209908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}