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Figure 1. Ultra-high parallel optical computing integrated chip - "Liuxing-I". High-detail view of an ultra-high parallelism optical computing integrated chip – “Liuxing-I”, showcasing the packaged ...

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. (“Xanadu”), a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Thorlabs, a globally-renowned ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

The idea of optical computing—the use of photons instead of electrons to perform computational operations—has been around for decades. However, interest has resurged in recent years; the potential for ...

This “heterostructure” consists of a stack of multiple different thin films, including a collection of aligned carbon nanotubes with different orientations. As fast as modern electronics have become, ...

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 ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...