Replacing lasers with less complex light sources boosts light-driven artificial intelligence performance

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-game-discovery-driven-artificial-intelligence.html

"cheaper, less energy-intensive light sources, yet yieling higher resolution, more precise measurements... narrow portion of incoherent light spectrum (produced by electrically-pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifier). was evenly split/ distributed into different input channels forming parallel AI computational array, where parallelism of AI computation enhanced by N times in photonic accelerator with N input channels... can run AI models 100X faster compared to laser system, if photonic accelerator scales to 100 input channels"