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PHASER research update: energy model and persistent optical logic

September 23, 2026

Laser optics on a laboratory bench

TensaCo published the results of a 29-experiment research sprint on PHASER’s simulated optical cavity.

With a cross-gain saturation model, the simulated medium supports a persistent, input-preserving NAND gate, verified on every round trip to 100,000 round trips, along with persistent NOT and AND gates. Persistent optical memory held for a million round trips.

An energy model compared the optical system with a fairly tuned digital baseline. At the simulated scale the two are at parity; the modeled advantage grows with scale against dense layers. The report lists what remains open, including a latch and composed multi-gate circuits.

Read the research report

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