Artificial intelligence, as it stands today, isn’t cheap. The leaders in the field are spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centers and more, running up steep losses so far. That has ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The research, published in Nature Communications, addresses one of the key challenges to engineering computers that run on light ...

Scientists have created a programmable optical chip that can slow light on demand, giving engineers far greater control over how optical signals propagate through a circuit. The technology could ...

Engineers have developed a multifunctional, reconfigurable component for an optical computing system that could be a game changer in electronics. As fast as modern electronics have become, they could ...

Slow light has never waited for anyone — until now. A joint research team from Seoul National University and the University of Seoul has published a peer-reviewed design for a programmable photonic ...

A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new breakthrough in photonics: the design of the first optical device that follows the emerging ...

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 ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different optical patterns at once is extremely complicated, and remains a major ...

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 ...

A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new breakthrough in photonics: the design of the first optical device that follows the emerging ...