Engineers at the University of California San Diego have achieved a long-sought milestone in photonics: creating tiny optical ...

How would the megaFLOPS per watt for an optical computer compare to, say, a modern i7? Report comment. ... If optical devices are 10X as large, the propagation delay will also be 10X. Report comment.

Image source: Mihail / Adobe. At the heart of this new computer is an optical implementation of a recurrent neural network. The device operates entirely within the optical domain, utilizing laser ...

Optical innovations. Article by Erica K. Brockmeier Photos by Evan Krape, courtesy of Tingyi Gu | Illustrations by Joy Smoker December 12, 2022. UD Engineering’s Tingyi Gu, fellow researchers are ...

“The all-optical computer realizes linear operations, nonlinear functions, and memory entirely in the optical domain with > 100 GHz clock rates,” they say. Their work paves the way for a new era of ...

To start, they built the first 8-variable optical computer of its kind. The computer uses different intensities of light to compute at the same location where the information is stored. The ...

The candidate pool for engineered materials that can help enable tomorrow's cutting-edge optical technologies—such as lasers, ...

By enabling deep learning to run at the speed of light, this chip could allow edge devices to perform real-time data analysis ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2022.220010 considers optical logic gates in future computers.

Sandia Labs invents method to integrate micro-optical devices on silicon. 07 Aug 2023. New Mexico-based lab awarded patent for technique of integrating multiple materials onto silicon. ... “Silicon is ...