Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

All-optical image processing has been viewed as a promising technique for its high computation speed and low power ...

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. (“Xanadu”), a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Thorlabs, a globally-renowned designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment, have partnered to develop ...

Ternary optical computing systems represent an innovative leap beyond traditional binary computation by utilising three discrete logic states. This approach leverages the intrinsic advantages of ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Co-packaged optics (CPO)—the silicon photonics technology promising to transform modern data centers and high-performance networks by addressing critical challenges like bandwidth density, energy ...

Machine learning and nanophotonics combine to enable fast, energy-efficient computing and sensing with potential for transformative AI-driven technologies. Fueled by metasurfaces and integrated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers have developed the first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named “Meteor-1”, setting a milestone for using light to perform an enormous number of operations at the ...