Super ising emulator with multi-body interactions and all-to-all connections

An optical computation system for emulating an Ising-machine supporting multi-body interactions and all-to-all connections, comprising:

• a light source configured to produce a pump beam;
• an optical modulator configured to receive a modulation mask and to modulate phases or intensities of wavelets of the pump beam based on the modulation mask to generate a modulated beam;
• a non-linear medium configured to convert a portion of the modulated beam to a second harmonic, SH, beam and to produce an output comprising the SH beam and an unconverted portion of the pump beam;
• a dichroic mirror configured to receive the output of the non-linear medium and to decouple the SH beam and the unconverted portion of the pump beam;
• a detector comprising:
• a first infrared camera configured to capture the unconverted portion of the pump beam and to generate a first intensity matrix, and
• a second visible light camera configured to capture the SH beam and to generate a second intensity matrix
• a controller configured to generate an updated modulation mask based on a first and a second optical powers for transmission to the optical modulator, and
• characterized in that the controller is configured to generate an updated modulation mask by:
• determining a camera state as a weighted sum of the first and second intensity matrices, and
• determining the updated modulation mask based on the modulation mask and the camera state for transmission to the optical modulator.