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    • Computer Science
    • Engineering

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    • Optics offers a promising platform for next-generation computing, enabling faster, more energy-efficient, and parallel processing capabilities.
    • Current computational methods face limitations in speed and energy efficiency for complex tasks.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To demonstrate a novel reconfigurable free-space optical multiplier for enhanced computational performance.
    • To enable large-scale, real-valued linear algebraic operations using optical methods.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized spatial light modulators with a 340x340 pixel resolution for optical multiplication.
    • Implemented a reconfigurable free-space architecture for parallel vector-matrix and vector-vector multiplication.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved parallel computation capability exceeding 3000 operations simultaneously.
    • Supported vector-matrix multiplication and parallel vector-vector multiplication with vector sizes up to 56.
    • Demonstrated the first optical implementation supporting reconfigurable, large-sized, real-valued linear algebraic operations.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed optical multiplier serves as a foundational component for specialized optical processors.
    • This technology can advance the development of optical neural networks and optical Ising machines.
    • The system offers a significant step towards practical, high-performance optical computing.