Artificial intelligence companies are spending billions on chips and infrastructure. Researchers think optical computing could help.

SHANNON, CLARE, IRELAND, February 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A new publication from Opto-Electronic Technology; DOI ...

Computing is hitting a physical and economic wall just as generative artificial intelligence explodes in complexity and cost. The traditional trick of cramming more transistors onto silicon is running ...

Optical computing and logic circuits represent a transformative approach to information processing, utilising light rather than electrons to execute computational tasks. This paradigm leverages the ...

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 ...

A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new breakthrough in photonics: the design of the first optical device that follows the emerging ...

A nanophotonic diffractive network performs morphological image processing, including dilation and erosion, purely through light propagation.

Researchers create a nanoscale light switch operating 10,000 times faster than electronic transistors, opening possibilities ...

Ternary optical computing systems represent an innovative leap beyond traditional binary computation by utilising three discrete logic states. This approach leverages the intrinsic advantages of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Every time you send a text message or browse the internet, your device processes information using tiny electronic switches that flip on and off millions of times per second. But ...

Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Faculty of Arts and ...