LightHash: Experimental Evaluation of a Photonic Cryptocurrency
Sunil Pai, Tae‐Won Park, Bogdan Penkovsky, Maziyar Milanizadeh, Marshall Ball, Michael Dubrovsky, Nathnael S. Abebe, Francesco Morichetti, Andrea Ivano Melloni, Olav Solgaard, David A. B. Miller · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2022
We propose LightHash, the first feasible photonic cryptographic hash function for blockchain technology using programmable photonic networks. We experimentally evaluate LightHash and assess whether photonic circuits can outperform digital competitors in latency and energy efficiency.