Lightwave Logic's Terry Turpin Projects Billion-Fold Performance Improvement ...
, Lightwave Logic's Optical Computing Expert detailed the advantages of a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) currently in development by the company with the help of an outside contractor using one of the company's organic nonlinear polymer based materials.A spatial light modulator is a device that formats information for an optical computer and is essentially an erasable photographic film that can be used and erased extremely quickly to record and images. A Spatial Light Modulator can be considered the heart of an optical computer in the way that a CPU is the core of a digital computer.
Mr. Turpin characterized this as the Holy Grail of Optical Computing because essentially all machine intelligence applications like, facial recognition; pattern recognition and speech recognition are based on Spatial Light Modulators and currently have been limited by the slow response time of LCD technology.
According to Mr. Turpin, a recognized expert in optical computing for over 40-years including important work at Essex Corporation and the National Security Agency (NSA), "The progress of Optical Computing has been limited by legacy Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology which while effective, can only refresh at 10 to 30 millisecond intervals. Because of the extremely fast response time of Lightwave Logic's organic nonlinear optical materials are in the range of a picoseconds (one-billionth of a second versus LCD at 10 to 30-thousands of a second), improvement in performance could be a billion-fold."
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