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Imagine a day when someone in a remote village can be operated on by specialized robots being controlled by a world-class surgeon on the other side of the world. Or where patients can get accurate and fast diagnoses of all possible underlying health conditions without multiple invasive procedures to collect various bio samples.

Photonic computing might sound like something out of Star Trek, but it’s a very real technology based on sound physics. It has been with us in various forms of electronics, but its potential is finally being realized to revolutionize complex and intensive computing systems. Below, we’ll dig into what precisely photonic computing is, its impact, and some of the top startups in the field to watch.