Duality is redefining computing for the 21st Century with low-power photonic processors that run critical algorithms in nanoseconds. Forever beyond the reach of microelectronics, Duality’s processors will bring new discoveries to a world that is cleaner, safer, and better connected. A prime example is signal processing, where Duality’s processors go far beyond the constraints of microelectronics to process high-bandwidth signals from unpredictable environments in nanoseconds.
Today’s demands on signal processing are growing faster than can be met by improvements in microelectronics. This gap is not only causing problems in our everyday digital lives, but also in critical areas of health, safety, and security where processing high-bandwidth complex signals with speed and accuracy is essential. Duality are building photonic processors that deliver massive advantages in speed, bandwidth, and accuracy for important challenges including signal processing. If you want to learn more, then connect with us.
You probably get frustrated during a video call when someone’s voice cuts out, or when you’re watching a movie that suddenly gets pixelated or freezes, or when your phone call sounds robotic as you walk along a busy street. That’s often not just because of a bad connection but is the result of signal processing struggling to keep up.
Patchy signal processing can be more than just an inconvenience. In hospitals, life-saving monitors can raise false alarms because they misread noisy signals from a patient’s body. In self-driving cars, if the system can’t process signals from cameras or radars correctly, it might slam on the brakes for a shadow, or it might even fail to spot a pedestrian.
The stakes become even higher in aviation, weather forecasting, or defence. Radar systems are designed to detect objects from miles away, often through clutter, interference, and bad weather. But if the processing algorithms can’t distinguish between a plane and a flock of birds, or between a storm system and ground clutter, the consequences range from flight delays and false weather warnings to military miscalculations or bad decisions for critical national security.
The problem is that electronic hardware and traditional signal processing algorithms are increasingly limited in their ability to keep up with today’s world of high-volume, unpredictable, multi-dimensional data. Duality’s processors are based on photonic hardware that runs photonic algorithms to overcome scaling bottlenecks. Orders of magnitude greater bandwidths can be handled in nanoseconds, massively increasing signal processing power across industries.
In critical computing, Duality’s processors will allow radar to identify threats more precisely in real time, industrial diagnostics to detect faults before failure, and healthcare monitors to alert clinicians to life-threatening changes. In edge computing, Duality’s processors will reduce the volumes of raw data transmitted to the cloud.
Duality’s processors will help realise tomorrow’s post-digital age. In Quantum Computing, real-time photonic signal processors will enable faster error correction before decoherence or loss ruins the computation. In 6G networks, faster signal processing will mean instant, uninterrupted connectivity, even in crowded or high-speed environments, enabling seamless experiences like real-time AR, ultra-clear video calls, and responsive smart devices.
In science and space exploration, Duality’s photonic signal processors will help answer some of our deepest questions about the universe. Faint signals collected by telescopes from light-years away are often buried in noise. But with greater signal processing power, we can filter, decode, and find the signal in the noise.
If you are interested in faster signal processing using photonics, then connect with us.
