OPTICAL COMPUTING NEAR FUTURE

By Stephen Blackwell

I believe light is the future of computing. The obvious benefit of using light over electrons is the increase speed light travels plus electrons have to travel through circuits which creates heat that has to be removed.
The best befit of using light is the drastic decrease of the number of steps needed to arrive at an answers. The best example I can imagine would be the ability of using the frequency of light to reduce logic gates. For example let’s say you want to add (2+ 3) you could use the frequency of light that represents yellow for 2 and the frequency of light that represents 3 for blue
Then adding these two frequencies together it would create the frequency of light for green which would represent 5
This example is only for a visual aid you can’t combine light waves together in this manner but sensors can detect different wave lengths of light then could combine them for the answer of 5 also a much higher frequencies of light would be needed for this type optical computing somewhere in the ultraviolet light wave range would work the best. I was so excited over this idea that I came up with a new computational math language for computing light waves to take full advantage of this idea.

Stephenqblackwell@gmail.com

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