Laser-Based Compute Promises To Light The Way To Faster Physics Sims

LightSolver chief executive officer Ruti Ben-Shlomi likens each laser to a stone tossed in a pond. The ripples interfere with one another, eventually forming a single wave representing the final solution.

This whole process takes place in a matter of microseconds. According to Lightsolver, the limiting factor, at least for optimization problems, is the number of variables each LPU can solve for is proportional to the size of the laser array.

Today, LightSolver’s existing prototype features 100 lasers. However, by 2027, the Israeli startup expects to have an LPU with 200 lasers, and by 2029, it expects to scale that to 1,000.

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