DARPA is seeking industry input for the Very Large-scale Photonic Integration (VLPI) project, aimed at revolutionizing computing through large-format photonic integrated circuits. Using light instead ...

A laser’s strongest interaction with a trapped ion can shift sideways, revealing a quantum effect with implications for qubit control.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The research, published in Nature Communications, addresses one of the key challenges to engineering computers that run on light ...

Researchers have made a major advance in quantum computing with a new device that is nearly 100 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the ...

Table tennis professionals are true masters at redirecting fast-moving projectiles. Putting a targeted spin on a serve can ...

Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now imagine that level of computing power as the industry standard. University of Arizona ...

Advance could pave the way for optical transistors and memory for optical computing. (Nanowerk News) A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University ...

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a recent paper ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in Nature Photonics, a research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid developed a new ...

If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer or internet connection, you’ve encountered the personal experience of hitting a limit of technology. But there might be help on the way. Over the ...

For two decades this has been the prevailing attitude of research strategists at industrial corporations toward optical computing. But all that may begin to change next week at an Optical Society of ...