Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

A single inverse-designed photonic structure that performs parallel computing

  • Miguel Camacho,
  • Brian Edwards,
  • Nader Engheta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21664-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Optical analog computing has so far been mostly limited to solving a single instance of a mathematical problem at a time. Here, the authors show that the linearity of the wave equation allows to solve several problems simultaneously, and demonstrate it using an MW transmissive cavity.