image: All-optical transcendental equation solver. (A) schematic diagram of the all-optical transcendental equation solver. (B) Top-view SEM image of the all-optical transcendental equation solver, ...

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

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 ...

Optical quantum computers are gaining attention as a next-generation computing technology with high speed and scalability. However, accurately characterizing complex optical processes, where multiple ...

Scientists have turned a long-standing sci‑fi idea into working hardware, using pure light to move data wirelessly through the air instead of relying on radio waves or copper traces. The result is a ...

Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and ...

Driven by the global wave of informatization, the real-time transmission, efficient processing, and intelligent analysis of massive data have become ...