Let there be light: novel AI framework runs neural networks on optical hardware
striketheviol · reddit · 2026-11-05
- TechXplore reports a novel AI framework that runs neural networks directly on optical hardware.
- The experimental setup uses a 1550nm laser, LN-MZM modulators, a 100m fiber delay line, and photodetector sampling; input masks encode images (e.g., MNIST digits) and a trained readout layer performs classification — a reservoir-computing-style photonic neural network.
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