Researchers find reliable method of storing light which could lead to new light-based computers

Imagine if you could make your computer 20 times faster than it is now. Thanks to recent research efforts by a group of scientists from the University of Sydney in Australia, you probably won’t even need to imagine it in the future, as it will become a possibility. The scientists are said to be the first to ever make a truly effective method of light-based computing, wherein they managed to store light-based information as sound waves on a working computer chip. This development could potentially open the door to next-level computing devices that are light-based instead of electronic.

As a report on the scientific discovery of this new light-based computing method states, the ability to move from current standard electronic computers to future light-based counterparts is reliant on the conversion method unlocked by the researchers. This method, which the researchers likened to “capturing lightning as thunder,” would allow computers to work at essentially the speed of light.