The idea of optical computing—the use of photons instead of electrons to perform computational operations—has been around for decades. However, interest has resurged in recent years; the potential for ...
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and scientific computing has imposed unprecedented demands on computational power, pushing traditional electronic architectures to ...
In advanced systems such as photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and optical neural networks, photodetectors and optical modulators serve as two fundamental functional modules. The former converts ...
Programmable photonic chip design from Seoul National University uses a spinor-based approach to software-tune optical signal ...
Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a joint research team led by Professor Namkyoo Park and ...
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Optical Sciences Division’s fiber optic computing experiment of encoded data on an optical carrier using the modulator, left, orange housing, and coupled into a 500 ...
Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and ...
As object identification and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques become essential in various reverse engineering, artificial intelligence, medical diagnosis, and industrial production ...
A compact thermal polarization modulator using phase-change material, offering a non-mechanical approach to increase optical ...
Eighty years after ENIAC helped launch the electronic age at the University of Pennsylvania, a new Penn-led advance points to a very different way of computing. Instead of relying on electrons, which ...
In the age of information, data processing and computation are essential. But current computation devices lack scalability and suffer from high carbon emissions. So researchers are constantly looking ...
Builds integrated photonics lab to ramp research and development for proprietary optical processing unitSan Francisco, June 30, 2026 (GLOBE ...