New initiative aimed at developing optical computing technologies to overcome the performance and energy limitations of traditional electronic ...

A new quantum communication method uses the temporal Talbot effect to simplify high-dimensional quantum key distribution.

Xscape Photonics also announced the launch of FalconX: a fully redundant External Laser Small Form-factor Pluggable (ELSFP) device capable of emitting up to eight wavelengths or colours of light for ...

The 2026 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), the world’s largest annual gathering for optical networking and communications professionals, takes place next week at the Los ...

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Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...

Photonic or optical computing was an unexpected, but notable, topic at the event this year. In photonic computing, the hardware and architectures use light (photons) to carry, process and/or store ...

A US startup called Neurophos has announced a new kind of AI chip that uses light instead of electricity to process data. Backed by Bill Gates’ Gates Frontier Fund, the company says its optical ...

Researchers develop ultra-fine 3D printing tech for vertical nanolasers, enabling high-density optical chips for AI, AR displays, and secure communications. (Nanowerk News) In future high-tech ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...

‘Quantum Class’ Pivot Shkreli revealed his position on X, arguing that “frontier computing is optical, not quantum.” He characterized the technology as “quantum class” to signal its potential to ...