Photos from open sources About the photon processor, conversations in the world of scientists have been going on for a long time, then have since it became clear that such a chip will be in the tens thousand times faster than modern electronic. And so it seems a similar processor has already been received.
At least the work of Nippon Telegraph researchers & Telephone and the University of Bristol to create reprogrammable optical quantum chip gives hope that in the near future photonic computers will not replace very productive electronic.
To make their unique chip, scientists used silicon and glass, relying on the most standard technologies semiconductor fabrication, that is, nothing unusual. But six additional waveguides providing universal linear optical transforms yes fifteen complex interferometers that are easy to program are already know-how. A as a victorious result – a new photonic processor capable of perform at the same time a great many operations.
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As one of the developers of the new chip from Bristol says Jacques Carolan’s University, experiments were conducted for a year, but we even They did not expect that they would result in such a stunning success.
Recall that something similar, that is, a unique optical recording in a crystal at the level of photonic structures developed and Tomsk scientists TUSUR, thereby bringing closer humanity to gaining a photon processor. Today we even hard to imagine a home computer capable of handling information, say, at the level of a global supercomputer. And this the future, apparently, is just around the corner.
