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Ultrafast computer processing speeds are possible with optical chirality logic gates that operate about a million times faster than existing technologies.
Processing devices based on polarized light run one million times faster than current technology.
Logic gates are the basic building blocks of computer processors. Conventional logic gates are electronic, working by shuffling around electrons. However, researchers have been developing light-based optical logic gates to meet the data processing and transfer demands of next-generation computing. Aalto University scientists developed new optical chirality logic gates that operate about a million times faster than existing technologies, offering ultrafast processing speeds.
The optical chirality logic gate is made of a material that emits lights with different circular polarization depending on the chirality of the input beams. Credit: Yi Zhang / Aalto University
This new approach, which is described in a paper published in the journal Science Advances, uses circularly polarized light as the input signal. The logic gates are made from crystalline materials that are sensitive to the handedness of a circularly polarized light beam – that is, the light emitted by the crystal depends on the handedness of the input beams. This serves as the basic building block for one type of logic gate (XNOR), and the remaining types of logic gates are built by adding filters or other optical components.
Additionally, the team demonstrated that a single device could contain all of their chirality logic gates operating simultaneously in parallel. This is a significant advance over existing logic gates, which can only carry out a single logic operation at a time. Simultaneous parallel logic gates could be used to build complex, multifunctional logic circuits. Finally, the team demonstrated that the chirality logic gate could be controlled and configured electronically, a necessary step for hybrid electrical/optical computing.
Reference: “Chirality logic gates” by Yi Zhang, Yadong Wang, Yunyun Dai, Xueyin Bai, Xuerong Hu, Luojun Du, Hai Hu, Xiaoxia Yang, Diao Li, Qing Dai, Tawfique Hasan and Zhipei Sun, 9 December 2022, Science Advances.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq8246
Ultrafast computer processing speeds are possible with optical chirality logic gates that operate about a million times faster than existing technologies.
Processing devices based on polarized light run one million times faster than current technology.
Logic gates are the basic building blocks of computer processors. Conventional logic gates are electronic, working by shuffling around electrons. However, researchers have been developing light-based optical logic gates to meet the data processing and transfer demands of next-generation computing. Aalto University scientists developed new optical chirality logic gates that operate about a million times faster than existing technologies, offering ultrafast processing speeds.
The optical chirality logic gate is made of a material that emits lights with different circular polarization depending on the chirality of the input beams. Credit: Yi Zhang / Aalto University
This new approach, which is described in a paper published in the journal Science Advances, uses circularly polarized light as the input signal. The logic gates are made from crystalline materials that are sensitive to the handedness of a circularly polarized light beam – that is, the light emitted by the crystal depends on the handedness of the input beams. This serves as the basic building block for one type of logic gate (XNOR), and the remaining types of logic gates are built by adding filters or other optical components.
Additionally, the team demonstrated that a single device could contain all of their chirality logic gates operating simultaneously in parallel. This is a significant advance over existing logic gates, which can only carry out a single logic operation at a time. Simultaneous parallel logic gates could be used to build complex, multifunctional logic circuits. Finally, the team demonstrated that the chirality logic gate could be controlled and configured electronically, a necessary step for hybrid electrical/optical computing.
Reference: “Chirality logic gates” by Yi Zhang, Yadong Wang, Yunyun Dai, Xueyin Bai, Xuerong Hu, Luojun Du, Hai Hu, Xiaoxia Yang, Diao Li, Qing Dai, Tawfique Hasan and Zhipei Sun, 9 December 2022, Science Advances.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq8246
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Moore seems safe.
“About a million” is what I expect from general interest publications. I opened this article to see actual units of performance.
Less than 100 fsec. Think massively parallel.
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