Breakthrough discovery in light interactions with nanoparticles paves the way for advances in optical computing

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-breakthrough-discovery-interactions-nanoparticles-paves.html

"nanoscale object made of silicon so that, when interrogated with light waves carrying an arbitrary input signal, it is able to encode the corresponding solution of a complex mathematical problem into the scattered light... very energy-efficient, ultrafast, ultracompact nanoscale optical computers and other nanophotonic technologies that can be used for classical and quantum computations"