Photonic Computing
Photonic Computing — Terra Invicta technology. Replaces conventional electron-based computing with super-high-bandwidth photons.
About Photonic Computing
Photonic Computing is a Terra Invicta technology in InformationScience with a research cost of 1,500.
Replaces conventional electron-based computing with super-high-bandwidth photons.
Our current computing devices depend upon passing a current through increasingly tiny microchips, but the laws of physics present barriers we cannot circumvent. The road to the future is not paved in processors shrunk by a handful more nanometers, but instead in light - using photons - rather than electrons. By replacing electronic data transfer and storage with photonic, or optical, equivalents, we can dramatically increase both the speed and efficiency of our computational capabilities. Though optoelectronic hybrids exist, these systems lose nearly 30% of their energy, due to the inefficiency of signal conversion. Wholly optical circuits remove this inefficiency, and thus can process algorithms at a speed beyond the reach of traditional devices, while consuming far less energy. At last, we have our first working photonic chip. This is the breakthrough we have long needed - one that will ultimately birth an even brighter future of quantum computing and true artificial intelligence.