New easy-to-use optical chip can self-configure to perform various functions

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-easy-to-use-optical-chip-self-configure-functions.html

"waveguide-based Mach–Zehnder interferometers in quadrilateral pattern... self-configure to perform optical routing, low-loss light energy splitting (<1.16 dB so sends signals to various processors and photodetectors facilitating input signal parallel pocessing) and matrix computations used to create neural networks... large-scale on-chip programmable waveguide networks.... reduced latency and power consumption... low-loss optical power splitting... image classification, gesture interpretation and speech recognition"