As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter systems has driven researchers to an unlikely ally—light itself. A new study by ...

Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: ...

Binary is so 20th century. Software King of the World Microsoft has come up with an analogue optical computer which it claims is not limited by the binary confines of zeros and ones, but instead, is ...

There’s an old saying: When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Sometimes referred to as “the law of the instrument,” that hammer-and-nail idea is a common pitfall in ...

Intel says its work on switching from copper I/O to optical fiber has taken a big step forward in high-speed data transmission. At this year's Optical Fiber Communication Conference in San Francisco, ...

A team of Volish boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a prototype analogue optical computer they claim could blow GPUs out of the water. The setup uses off-the-shelf smartphone ...

Object recognition through random scattering media has been an important but challenging task in many fields, such as biomedical imaging, oceanography, security, robotics, and autonomous driving.

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 ...

As part of their plan to serve the surging bandwidth demands of wholesale and enterprise customers, Arelion and Ciena are claiming to have completed the world’s first 1.6 terabits-per-second (Tbps) ...

In the latest part of its Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) project, designed to meet the growing needs of the hyper-connected business world of the future, NTT Corporation (NTT) has ...