Computer modeling is assisting the design of optical modulators with low losses to improve optical communications. "Our device has a speed and optical losses comparable to existing technology such ...

On the third floor of the University of Delaware’s Du Pont Hall, electrical engineers analyze delicate, centimeter-sized computer chips on a large optical table surrounded by oscilloscopes, lenses and ...

The optical probe that the team's device is based on, called SCOPe, is comprised of a flexible, lens-less and thin miniature microscope, as well as an optical stimulator.

Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

Researchers have created an all-optical computer capable of 100 GHz speeds that runs off light instead of electricity.

Their research, “Nonlinear Optical Resonances from Ballistic Electron Funnelling”, which was recently published in ACS Nano, offers a fresh take on how ballistic electrons—those that travel ...

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have developed a new method for assembling ultra-small, light-controlling ...

IBM scientists on Wednesday announced the development of a device that uses light, instead of copper wires, to allow computer chips to communicate.

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming outdated.

Cool connection: Visualization of a cryogenic electro-optical interconnect for superconducting devices. (Courtesy: Amir Youssefi, EPFL) Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

Japanese tech firm NTT is building a sophisticated optical computerA machine made from a 5-kilometre-long fibre optic cable coiled into a box a few metres across could give quantum computers a run ...