Researchers have built a computer that performs complex AI calculations in a single pass of light, completing what today’s fastest AI chips need multiple steps to accomplish. The breakthrough promises ...

From planning transportation networks to organizing massive datasets, many of society's most important challenges boil down ...

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...

Figure 1. Ultra-high parallel optical computing integrated chip - "Liuxing-I". High-detail view of an ultra-high parallelism optical computing integrated chip – “Liuxing-I”, showcasing the packaged ...

Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have announced a "major advance" in optical computing technology, which they say promises to enhance data processing and encryption. This ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

Quantum interconnect chip technology enters commercial deployment as SEALSQ's Miraex subsidiary launches the first thin-film ...

Chinese researchers developed an optical chip system that reportedly made distributed AI inference 100 times faster while using far less compute.

A compact thermal polarization modulator using phase-change material, offering a non-mechanical approach to increase optical ...

Advance could pave the way for optical transistors and memory for optical computing. (Nanowerk News) A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University ...

A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists at the University of Bath in the UK to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of ...

In a recent study published in Nature Photonics, a research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid developed a new ...