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February 18, 2022

Nanophotonic analog accelerator solves challenging problems

Researchers have developed a nanophotonic analog accelerator to solve challenging engineering and science problems -- known as partial differential equations -- in fractions of a second.

[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant ECCS 1748294.]

Learn more in the Eurekalert news story Researchers develop novel analog processor for high performance csomputing. (Date image taken: Aug. 2021; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Feb. 18, 2022)

Credit: Mario Miscuglio, George Washington University


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