As programmable photonics use light instead of electrons to transmit and process signals, they promise faster, more ...

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

Scientists have developed a compact optical amplifier based on a photonic chip that vastly outperforms traditional optical amplifiers in both bandwidth and efficiency. This breakthrough could reshape ...

Optical multiplication: a new technique for combining light signals could give optical computers a boost. (Courtesy: iStock/7io) Researchers in Russia and the UK have proposed a new and simple way to ...

Modern communication networks rely on optical signals to transfer vast amounts of data. But just like a weak radio signal, these optical signals need to be amplified to travel long distances without ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, light-induced thermomagnetic recording in a magnetic thin-film on silicon waveguides. The new writing technique is poised to enable ...

Copper interconnects cannot deliver the high-performance requirements of modern systems, especially with the rapid expansion ...

For high-speed and large-capacity optical communication applications and improvement of accuracy in microwave generation and evaluation equipment Results: NTT and their partners have developed a ...

What's the best way for light to travel from point A to point B? The long way, says Big Blue. Image: Optical signals delayed Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip can reduce the speed of light by a factor of 1,200, a major step toward the realization of an ultra low-power, all-optical quantum data network. The ...