Controlling light with light is a long-sought goal for computing and communication technologies. Achieving this capability ...

Ternary optical computing systems represent an innovative leap beyond traditional binary computation by utilising three discrete logic states. This approach leverages the intrinsic advantages of ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now embarks upon a series of guest analysis pieces covering the world of photonics. The flow of network packets via photonics light-based networks provides ...

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 ...

In the age of information, data processing and computation are essential. But current computation devices lack scalability and suffer from high carbon emissions. So researchers are constantly looking ...

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. The team ...

With MWC 2026 taking place in Barcelona, FiberHome has stepped into the spotlight under the theme Connecting the Bright ...

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 ...

We always hear that future computers will use optical technology. But what will that look like for a general-purpose computer? German researchers explain it in a recent scientific paper. Although the ...

A nanophotonic diffractive network performs morphological image processing, including dilation and erosion, purely through light propagation.

In a recent study published in Nature Photonics, a research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid developed a new ...