European researchers are developing quantum computers using light and glass, in a collaboration that promises breakthroughs in computing power, battery technology and scientific discovery.By Anthony ...

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the ...

Optical Cable Corporation is an under-the-radar AI infrastructure play with massive upside potential from new datacenter ...

For decades, scientists have looked to light as a way to speed up computing. Photonic neural networks—systems that use light ...

Researchers develop a hardware platform for AI accelerators that can handle increasing workloads while reducing energy use.

A new kind of computer – an analog optical computer – that has the potential to accelerate AI inference and hard optimization workloads by 100x, leveraging hardware-software co-design to improve the ...

Semiconductor Fano lasers—Leveraging interference effects known as Fano resonances, these lasers can generate ultrashort optical pulses and exhibit improved spectral properties, offering 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 ...

This paper discusses the architecture of an arrayed waveguide grating router (AWGR)-based low-latency interconnect optical network switch called LIONS, and its different loopback buffering schemes. A ...

Chinese scientists have recently unveiled an optical chip that could reshape how machines handle data. Developed at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), the chip can perform up ...

Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks (UOWSNs) play important roles in resource exploration and maritime rescue. However, they face significant challenges in real-time data transmission due to ...