The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and scientific computing has imposed unprecedented demands on computational power, pushing traditional electronic architectures to ...

In advanced systems such as photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and optical neural networks, photodetectors and optical modulators serve as two fundamental functional modules. The former converts ...

Programmable photonic chip design from Seoul National University uses a spinor-based approach to software-tune optical signal ...

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a joint research team led by Professor Namkyoo Park and ...

Optical computing uses light instead of electricity to process complex data. Digital twin eliminates long waits for shared optical hardware. Virtual optical systems mirrored real hardware with ...

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 ...

The researchers from Peking University in Beijing and Harbin Engineering University in northeast China achieved multistability requiring only 240 microwatts for the switching power, less than the ...

As object identification and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques become essential in various reverse engineering, artificial intelligence, medical diagnosis, and industrial production ...

Chinese researchers developed an optical chip system that reportedly made distributed AI inference 100 times faster while ...

Eighty years after ENIAC helped launch the electronic age at the University of Pennsylvania, a new Penn-led advance points to a very different way of computing. Instead of relying on electrons, which ...

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 ...