The Optical Computing Revolution: How All-Optical Signal Processing (AOSP) Is Overcoming Electronics’ Big Data Bottleneck

Introduction: Optical Computing as a Structural Shift in the Global Compute Architecture The global digital infrastructure is approaching a fundamental limit—not in data generation, but in data processing. While optical networks routinely transmit information at terabit-per-second speeds, the underlying compute architecture remains constrained by electronic processing, forcing repeated optical-to-electrical-to-optical (O-E-O) conversions. This mismatch between transmission…