Akhetonics Develops World's First All-Optical General-Purpose Processor Using Photonic Integrated Circuits
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Summary
Akhetonics has developed the world's first all-optical general-purpose processor using photonic integrated circuits (PICs) that can perform nonlinear operations, which are essential for general-purpose computing but traditionally difficult in optics. Their technology enables all-optical cross-domain compute capabilities by solving the challenge of generating optical nonlinearities on a chip, allowing them to create complex optical computing building blocks for next-generation computing systems.
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Our technology is built around our know-how to generate these nonlinearities in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC).
Solving this has been key to our ability to create our all-optical cross-domain compute capabilities.
With our integrated non-linear optical components, we can create much more complex de
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