The age of the commercial quantum computer is a step closer after NTT Inc. and a University of Tokyo spinoff said they aim to bring an optical quantum device to market by fiscal 2030. On Aug. 3, NTT ...

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 developed an optical computing framework that pairs state-skipping training with a simplified architecture ...

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

Inside your smartphone, electrons are racing around furiously.If they run, they generate heat. Because they generate heat, they must be cooled. Cooling them consumes electricity.So—what if they didn't ...

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 ...

Researchers have created the tiniest laser since its invention nearly 50 years ago, paving the way for a host of innovations, including superfast computers that use light instead of electrons to ...

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world measures one second in the near future. Researchers from Adelaide University ...

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 ...

A research team has developed an optical computing system for AI and machine learning that not only mitigates the noise inherent to optical computing but actually uses some of it as input to help ...