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 ...

Modern artificial intelligence systems rely on moving large amounts of data between memory and processors, a design that ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Every time you send a text message or browse the internet, your device processes information using tiny electronic switches that flip on and off millions of times per second. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...

Addressing a major roadblock in next-generation photonic computing and signal processing systems, researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have ...