{"id":216235,"date":"2025-06-19T05:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/light-based-computing-with-optical-fibers-shows-potential-for-ultra-fast-ai-systems"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:25:08","slug":"light-based-computing-with-optical-fibers-shows-potential-for-ultra-fast-ai-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/light-based-computing-with-optical-fibers-shows-potential-for-ultra-fast-ai-systems","title":{"rendered":"Light-based computing with optical fibers shows potential for ultra-fast AI systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-based-computing-with-optical-fibers-shows-potential-for-ultra-fast-ai-systems3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and Universit\u00e9 Marie et Louis Pasteur in France have now demonstrated a novel way of processing information using light and optical fibers, opening up the possibility of building ultra-fast computers. The studies are published in <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/ol\/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-50-13-4166\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Optics Letters<\/i><\/a> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2501.05233\" target=\"_blank\">arXiv<\/a> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>The research was performed by postdoctoral researchers Dr. Mathilde Hary from Tampere University and Dr. Andrei Ermolaev from the Universit\u00e9 Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besan\u00e7on, demonstrated how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser light<\/a> inside thin glass fibers can mimic the way artificial intelligence (AI) processes information. Their work has investigated a particular class of computing architecture known as an Extreme Learning Machine, an approach inspired by neural networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of using conventional electronics and algorithms, computation is achieved by taking advantage of the nonlinear interaction between intense light pulses and the glass,\u201d Hary and Ermolaev explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and Universit\u00e9 Marie et Louis Pasteur in France have now demonstrated a novel way of processing information using light and optical fibers, opening up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216235","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=216235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}