New Light-Based Chip Supercharges AI Efficiency by up to 100x
A new semiconductor chip fabricates miniature lenses on the chip to perform calculations using light instead of electricity,…
Hollow glass fiber transmits internet with 1,000x greater capacity
The next internet revolution may come through a hollow strand of glass. Instead of the solid glass cores…
A Simple Shift in Light Control Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing
The new approach uses a purely optical technique called stimulated two-photon excitation to generate streams of photons in…
A single-photon source based on topological bulk cavity
Design of single-photon source based on topological bulk state Figure 1 provides a detailed illustration of the design…
Quantum light technique enables sharper, earlier disease detection
Scientists have hacked the rules of light–matter interaction to spot disease earlier than ever before. A Johns Hopkins…
Scientists Build Scalable Network Node With Light and Ions
One by one, each ion-qubit is moved into an optical cavity, where mirrors efficiently collect the photons emitted…
Ultrabroadband air-dielectric double-chirped mirrors for laser frequency combs
Design of pump-DUT dimension and measurement procedure As shown in Fig. 2a in the main text, broadband illumination…
Achromatic beam deflector with electrodynamic phased arrays
Chromatic aberration in the beam deflector and its compensation Beam steering with LC leverages its anisotropic characteristics to…
Photonic Computing: Lightmatter Reports 16-Wavelength Bidirectional Link on Single-Mode Optical Fiber
With the rise of complex trillion-parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) models, scaling AI workloads is increasingly bottlenecked by…
Spin-orbit coupling in van der Waals materials for optical vortex generation
Figure 1a schematically illustrates the creation of optical vortices via spin-orbit coupling in the hBN crystal. As shown…