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Logic with Light: Introducing Diffraction Casting, Optical-based Parallel Computing

Dark background with pale 3D diagrams hovering in front showing multiple square layers with slightly different cutout shapes on them.
Diffraction casting. An overview of the proposed system showing an input image layer placed amongst other layers which combine in different ways to perform logical operations when light is passed through the stack. ©2024 Mashiko et al. CC-BY-ND

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power efficiency but has yet to be realized due to constraints and drawbacks. A new design architecture, called diffraction casting, seeks to address these shortcomings. It introduces some concepts to the field of optical computing that might make it more appealing for implementation in next-generation computing devices.

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