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Quantum interconnect chip technology enters commercial deployment as SEALSQ's Miraex subsidiary launches the first thin-film ...

Engineers have developed a multifunctional, reconfigurable component for an optical computing system that could be a game changer in electronics. As fast as modern electronics have become, they could ...

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 ...

In advanced systems such as photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and optical neural networks, photodetectors and optical modulators serve as two fundamental functional modules. The former converts ...

(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 ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different optical patterns at once is extremely complicated, and remains a major ...

A compact thermal polarization modulator using phase-change material, offering a non-mechanical approach to increase optical ...

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 ...