The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

As the realm of computing continues to evolve, the integration of optical technologies has emerged as a groundbreaking frontier, presenting new paradigms for processing and information transfer.

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 ...

Next-generation AI infrastructure goes optical ...

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

Controlling light with light is a long-sought goal for computing and communication technologies. Achieving this capability would allow optical signals to be processed without converting them into ...

Scientists have developed a foundational architecture for next-generation optical computing — using light rather than electricity to power chips — that could revolutionize how artificial intelligence ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Subscribe to our ...

Lumai team Lumai’s technology was spun out of world-leading optics research at the University of Oxford. From left to right: CEO & Co-Founder Tim Weil, Co-Founder & Head of Research Dr. Xianxin Guo, ...

Speculation about extremely fast optical computing has existed since the invention of the laser. Delivering on those predictions, the first commercially available optical DSP, the EnLight256, can ...

Oxford spin-out is latest to target AI with claims of optical processing 'breakthrough' to address compute and power challenges. Lumai, a spin-out from the UK’s University of Oxford working on a ...