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ISRC Future Technology Briefing: Optical Computing

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ISRC Future Technology Briefing: Optical Computing

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    1. ISRC Future Technology Briefing: Optical Computing

    2. Consider Email What is the Optical Computing Buzz About?

    3. Why Do We Need Optical Computers? Rapid growth of the Internet Network speeds currently limited by electronic circuits Terabit speeds are required Traditional silicon circuits have a physical limit

    5. How Does It Work? Photonic circuits Organic compounds No short-circuiting possible No heat dissipation Speed of light in photonic circuits will be close to speed of light in vacuum Light beams can travel in parallel They can transfer data in parallel.

    6. No conversion of data Faster that today’s machines Increased computational power Optimized storage Increased bandwidth Super-fast database searches Photonic circuit accuracy Requirement of power

    7. What Is the Projected Timeline? Still some time in the future On our desktops in 15 years Now researchers have made progress Light can be trapped for long enough to store data Advanced optical CD-ROMs (Write/Read/Erase) In the near term, optical computers will most likely be hybrid optical/electronic systems.

    8. What’s Beyond the Optical Limit? Quantum computing Allows particles to be in more than one state at a time Each particle in a quantum computer to hold more than one bit of information. A quantum computer is, thus far, only a hypothetical machine Expected between 2030 and 2050

    9. What Should Your Organization Do? Participate in research activities (like ISRC seminars ?) Review the status of optical computing research about every two years Compare those advances with advances in the micro-miniaturization of traditional processors Try to identify those segments of the economy that will benefit the soonest from advances in optical computing

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