The idea of optical computing—the use of photons instead of electrons to perform computational operations—has been around for decades. However, interest has resurged in recent years; the potential for ...

Researchers demonstrate ultrafast multivalley optical switching in germanium (Ge) using a single-color pulse laser. This breakthrough enables precise transparency control across multiple wavelengths, ...

For the first time, an international cadre of electrical engineers has developed a new method for photonic in-memory computing that could make optical computing a reality in the near future. Until now ...

(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 ...

BEIJING, Sept. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today announced that ...

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor have announced a successful demonstration of a 400G/lane modulator on Tower's silicon photonics platform, PH18DA, which achieves over a 3.5dB extinction ratio using ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "The Global Market for Optical Computing 2025-2035" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Market for Optical Computing 2025-2035 offers an ...

Innovation paves the way for a high-volume, silicon photonics 400G/lane platform to meet next-generation 3.2T optical communication architectures for datacom and AI applications. The integrated ...

The constant scaling of AI applications and other digital technologies across industries is beginning to tax the energy grid due to its intensive energy consumption. Digital computing's energy and ...

A new technical paper titled “Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization” was published by researchers at Microsoft Research, Barclays and University of Cambridge.