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 ...

Engineers develop multifunctional, reconfigurable component of an optical computing system that could be a game changer in ...

An optical computer could likewise do lots of calculations at the same time. Using photons reduces power consumption, too. Electrical resistance generates heat, which wastes energy. The passage of ...

By controlling individual atoms, researchers have demonstrated a way to turn previously unwanted atomic motion into an ...

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 rapid development of AI imposes stringent energy efficiency and area efficiency requirements on next-generation computing. Optical intelligent computing has shown great potential in achieving ...

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh are today exploring how optical "memristors" may be a key to developing neuromorphic computing. Resistors with memory, or memristors, have already ...

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Mr New’s answer, as his firm’s name suggests, is to employ optical rather than electronic computing. In Optalysys’s system, the information is encoded into the phase and amplitude of many ...