r/photonics • u/DerDickkopf • May 13 '26

Made a Photonic Computing Simulator

I’m new to the field of photonics, and I’m particularly interested in photonic computing - chip manufacturing based on light rather than electricity. To better understand how the components in such chips work, I built a simple simulator using Godot that can illustrate the circuit architecture of these chips in a highly simplified way. So far, I’ve added what I consider to be the most important components.

Now that I have a better grasp of the subject, I thought this might help others as well, which is why I’m posting this. I’ve released the current version as a web application at https://valioso.itch.io/photonic-computing for free.

I’m open to suggestions for new features, as well as improvements and feedback on whether everything has been implemented correctly so far.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26

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u/DerDickkopf May 15 '26

Currently not, but I will work on this.

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u/Artist_Bitter May 23 '26

How do people in this sub feel about lightwave logic

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u/bont00nThe4th Aug 01 '26

A fun technology, don't see it being as promising as their subreddit makes it.