Tiny gears on computer chips generate a vortex of light that could boost optical computing For the first time, researchers have used tiny gears made of germanium to generate a vortex of twis... Read more
New nanoscale light switch is a step toward light-based computers Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have reached a new milestone on the way to optical computin... Read more
By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on light instead of electronics. Light is desirable for use in computing bec... Read more
The world’s first entirely light-based memory chip to store data permanently has been developed by material scientists at Oxford University in collaboration with scientists at Karlsruhe, Mun... Read more
Physicists from the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials of ITMO University have experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of designing an optical analog of a transistor based on... Read more
The storage capacity of hard drives is increasing explosively, but the speed with which all that data can be written has reached its limits. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology... Read more
The fabrication and laser writing of this photonic material is simple and low cost. Swinburne researchers have developed a high-quality continuous graphene oxide thin film that shows potenti... Read more
ICFO scientists have shown that a nano-size diamond at room temperature can act as an efficient optical switch controllable with light A recent study led by researchers of the ICFO (Institut... Read more
A research team at Swinburne University of Technology has overcome a fundamental law of optical science that could lead to faster and more energy-efficient optical computing. It would allow... Read more
Leading to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers When it comes to speed, photons leave electrons for dead, which means optical computers will be much faster... Read more
Image via Wikipedia MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. It’s also the first g... Read more
The researchers say their breakthrough marks a major advance toward applications in the biomedical, communications and computing fields. Read more
