The liaison between photonics and computing is a pillar of modern optics and subject of cutting-edge research for more than half a century. As in many scientific disciplines, high-performance computational methods have become essential for describing, designing, interpreting and ultimately predicting an optical system’s behaviour, and today the wide availability of high-performance photonic components is testimony of how computing has boosted the field of photonics. At the same time, photonic architectures offer fascinating possibilities for carrying out computations scaling beyond today’s computing hardware. This establishes an almost uniquely reciprocal relationship between photonics and computing.

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用于计算的光子学和用于光子学的计算

光子学与计算之间的联系是现代光学的支柱，也是半个多世纪以来前沿研究的主题。与许多科学学科一样，高性能计算方法已成为描述、设计、解释和最终预测光学系统行为的必要条件，如今高性能光子组件的广泛可用性证明了计算如何推动光子学领域的发展. 与此同时，光子架构为执行超越当今计算硬件的计算提供了令人着迷的可能性。这在光子学和计算之间建立了一种几乎独特的相互关系。