Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the ...

European researchers are developing quantum computers using light and glass, in a collaboration that promises breakthroughs ...

For decades, scientists have looked to light as a way to speed up computing. Photonic neural networks—systems that use light instead of electricity to process information—promise faster speeds and ...

European researchers are developing quantum computers using light and glass, in a collaboration that promises breakthroughs in computing power, battery technology and scientific discovery.

Non-destructive inspection of semiconductor optical waveguides was demonstrated using optical coherence tomography with a visible broadband light source (vis-OCT). Comparisons of measured height and ...

Quantum plasmonic biosensors enable self-illumination for real-time, label-free diagnostics with scalable point-of-care applications.

A new kind of computer – an analog optical computer – that has the potential to accelerate AI inference and hard optimization workloads by 100x, leveraging hardware-software co-design to improve the ...

CRN’s 10 hottest semiconductor startups of 2025 so far include Ayar Labs, Celestial AI, Lightmatter, Tenstorrent and other companies trying to unlock new levels of AI performance and efficiency.

Optical fibers with a hollow core, made of air instead of solid glass, are known as hollow-core optical fibers. In comparison to traditional fibers with solid glass cores, this one-of-a-kind ...

Light-based AI computing hits a breakthrough with optical fiber systems, offering picosecond training speeds and energy savings.

This year’s AI Breakthrough Awards program attracted more than 5,000 nominations from over 20 countries, underscoring the explosive growth and global importance of AI as a defining technology of the ...