Semiconductor chips that process light rather than electricity could boost processing speeds and reduce energy use.

China is accelerating efforts in optical computer chips to overcome chip restrictions and lead the next wave of AI innovation ...

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 ...

“Energy efficiency of electronic digital processors is primarily limited by the energy consumption of electronic communication and interconnects. The industry is almost unanimously pushing towards ...

Barclays has entered a joint development agreement with Microsoft to explore an application for an optical computer that has already outperformed a quantum computer by two orders of magnitude. In ...

NTT and OptQC aim to build a 1-million qubit quantum computer based on light, rather than electricity, to enhance reliability, scalability and practicality. Use cases for a practical optical quantum ...

Left: Schematic of the introduced prototype device for the measurement of specular surfaces, comprised of an unpolarized display and a polarization camera. Right: Measurement example: Object, camera ...