Over the past decades, engineers have introduced a wide range of computing systems inspired by the human brain or designed to emulate some of its functions. These include devices that artificially ...

Researchers from the Monash University School of Physics and Astronomy have flipped a long-held assumption in optics, showing ...

Optical logic gates represent a cutting‐edge approach to perform computation entirely with light, bypassing the limitations inherent to electronic components. By exploiting light’s phase, intensity, ...

Researchers create a photochromic fluorescent system that performs optical neural computing and visual output in one step, cutting power use and complexity. (Nanowerk News) The rapid growth of ...

Machine learning and nanophotonics combine to enable fast, energy-efficient computing and sensing with potential for transformative AI-driven technologies. Fueled by metasurfaces and integrated ...

The development of deep learning has motivated the advancement of unconventional computing that leverages analog physical systems such as analog electronics, spintronics, and photonics. These ...

The liquid crystals that make phone screens glow are finding a second career: routing light signals inside computer chips. In ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different optical patterns at once is extremely complicated, and remains a major ...

The (above) figure shows how light is focused into a tiny processing unit, allowing vast strings of computational information to be transferred without the use of energy-intensive circuitry. The other ...

Addressing a major roadblock in next-generation photonic computing and signal processing systems, researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have ...

A team of researchers at the USC’s (University of Southern California) Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has designed what it calls “the first optical device that follows ...