NRL Research Physicists Explore Fiber Optic Computing Using Distributed Feedback

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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Optical Sciences Division’s U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Optical Sciences Division’s fiber optic computing experiment of encoded data on an optical carrier using the modulator, left, orange housing, and coupled into a 500 meter backscattering fiber, upper-right, gray aluminum housing, which applies a series of random convolutions on the input data. The result of the convolutions is recorded on a high-speed photodetector seen in lower-right, black housing (photo provided by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory).

March 25, 2024 | Originally published by NRL on March 11, 2024

WASHINGTON  –  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers deliver a novel contribution to fiber optics computing. The Fiber Optic Computing Using Distributed Feedback paper recently published in Communications Physics Journal, brings the Navy one step closer to faster, more efficient computing technologies.

Optical computing uses the properties of light, such as its speed and ability to carry large amounts of data, to process information more efficiently than traditional electronic computers.

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