Computers that use light instead of circuits to run calculations may sound like a plot point from a Star Trek episode, but researchers have been working on this novel approach to computing for years.

Machine learning and nanophotonics combine to enable fast, energy-efficient computing and sensing with potential for transformative AI-driven technologies. Fueled by metasurfaces and integrated ...

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) faces critical challenges in energy consumption and processing latency due to the inherent limitations of electronic processors. Optical computing has emerged as a ...

A research team has successfully implemented a programmable spinor lattice on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). This platform enables the realization of non-Abelian physics, in which the outcome of ...

Semiconductor giant Marvell Technology has agreed to acquire Celestial AI, a startup building optical interconnects for ...

New initiative aimed at developing optical computing technologies to overcome the performance and energy limitations of traditional electronic architectures New York, NY, March 18, 2026 (GLOBE ...

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Q/C Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: QCLS) (“Q/C” or “the Company”), today announced the launch of a new initiative to design and prototype a proprietary optical processing unit (OPU) aimed at tackling the ...