Building the Future of Smart Telecommunication Systems with Optical AI
Modern communication networks must handle ever‑growing volumes of data, driven by cloud services, connected devices, and real‑time applications. At the same time, they face a critical constraint: keeping energy consumption as low as possible. Today, signal recovery and data processing rely mostly on electronic hardware—powerful, but energy‑intensive and increasingly limited by latency.
To address these challenges, researchers in Roberto Morandotti’s laboratory at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have developed a new device that enables optical artificial intelligence, where data is processed using light rather than electronics, enabling high speed and low energy consumption.
This work, recently published in Nature Communications, demonstrates how photonics can offer a fast and efficient alternative to conventional signal processing technologies.
The device belongs to the field of neuromorphic photonics, which takes inspiration from the way the human brain processes information.
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