The 2024 SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Diego featured prominent themes of light-based processing and machine learning, sparking discussions on their real-world applicability. Attendees were particularly interested in exploring linear versus non-linear approaches and all-optical versus hybrid methods.
Optical computing and artificial intelligence were at the forefront of these conversations, with experts weighing the benefits and drawbacks of each approach. The findings presented at the conference have been published in a recent article by D. Pile in Nature Photonics.
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01582-0