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Programmable all-optical signal processing on a silicon chip

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 ...
Nature

Unconventional Optical Computing

As the realm of computing continues to evolve, the integration of optical technologies has emerged as a groundbreaking frontier, presenting new paradigms for processing and information transfer.
Nanowerk

All-optical morphological image processing at the speed of light

A nanophotonic diffractive network performs morphological image processing, including dilation and erosion, purely through light propagation.
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Scientists say they've eliminated a major AI bottleneck — now they can process calculations 'at the speed of light'

Scientists have developed a foundational architecture for next-generation optical computing — using light rather than electricity to power chips — that could revolutionize how artificial intelligence ...

From ‘Optical Synapses’ to a ‘Photonic Brain’ — Integrated Photonic Neural Networks Toward Low-Power General-Purpose

SHANNON, CLARE, IRELAND, February 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A new publication from Opto-Electronic Technology; DOI ...
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Optical system uses diffractive processors to achieve large-scale nonlinear computation

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Subscribe to our ...
Nanowerk

Novel photodetector integrates event sensing and memory for optical processing

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical information processing is a critical technology for applications ranging from machine vision to high-speed optical communication. However, current photodetection systems ...
The National Law Review

Lumai Secures More Than $10M Investment to Slash AI Processing Costs, Boost Performance and Improve Data Center Sustainability

Lumai team Lumai’s technology was spun out of world-leading optics research at the University of Oxford. From left to right: CEO & Co-Founder Tim Weil, Co-Founder & Head of Research Dr. Xianxin Guo, ...
Phys.org

Silicon metasurfaces boost optical image processing with passive intensity-based filtering

Of the many feats achieved by artificial intelligence (AI), the ability to process images quickly and accurately has had an especially impressive impact on science and technology. Now, researchers in ...
Optics

Photonic computing startup Lumai lands $10M

Oxford spin-out is latest to target AI with claims of optical processing 'breakthrough' to address compute and power challenges. Lumai, a spin-out from the UK’s University of Oxford working on a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

New Approach to Encoding Optical Weights for In-Memory Photonic Computing Using Magneto-Optic Memory Cells

A new technical paper titled “Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing” was published by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of ...