Over the past decades, engineers have introduced a wide range of computing systems inspired by the human brain or designed to emulate some of its functions. These include devices that artificially ...

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250263 SHANNON, CLARE, IRELAND, April ...

As technology advances, and the demand for faster, higher-bandwidth, and more energy-efficient data processing continues to ...

Optical logic gates represent a cutting‐edge approach to perform computation entirely with light, bypassing the limitations inherent to electronic components. By exploiting light’s phase, intensity, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The development of deep learning has motivated the advancement of unconventional computing that leverages analog physical systems such as analog electronics, spintronics, and photonics. These ...

A micrometer-sized liquid crystal droplet doped with fluorescent dye functions as a nanosecond optical switch that controls light output using light alone. The resonant cavity design cuts the energy ...

The (above) figure shows how light is focused into a tiny processing unit, allowing vast strings of computational information to be transferred without the use of energy-intensive circuitry. The other ...

Shares of Alibaba-backed Lightelligence surged in its Hong Kong debut on strong investor demand, putting the Chinese optical-computing provider's market value at $9.5 billion. Shares of the company, ...

One of the biggest obstacles to fully optical computing has been the lack of a fast, scalable photonic memory cell. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have demonstrated what they are ...