Fiber optics can make computers ultra-fast/ efficient for real-time signal processing, environmental monitoring and high-speed AI inference

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087933

"laser light inside thin glass fibers mimics how AI processes information... overcomes bandwidth, data throughput, power consumption limits... amplifies tiny differences between intense fs laser pulses/ optical fiber via Extreme Learning Machine nonlinear interactions inspired by neural networks to make them discernable... pulses contain large number of wavelengths, sent into fiber with relative delay encoded according to an image containing information classifying handwritten digits with >91% accuracy"