Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes ...

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter ...

Researchers create a photochromic fluorescent system that performs optical neural computing and visual output in one step, ...

Optical computing, which uses light rather than electricity to process information, offers a promising route to overcome the ...

Rice University researchers studying a class of atom-thin semiconductors known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) ...

As the realm of computing continues to evolve, the integration of optical technologies has emerged as a groundbreaking frontier, presenting new paradigms for processing and information transfer.

The computing world is on the cusp of a transformative leap forward, as researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have unveiled an all-optical computer capable of achieving clock ...

Way, way back in the day, “computing” was the domain of analog circuits. No, they couldn’t add up columns of numbers, but they could solve complex differential and other equations, and did so fairly ...

Instead of relying on switches or digital control, the light finds its own path through the system. This approach could transform data transmission, computing, and communications by making optical ...

For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power computers and smartphones. But Moore’s Law is ending as physical ...

Researchers have developed a new optical computing material from photon avalanching nanoparticles. A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, ...