Why electrical circuits operating at optical frequencies is an attractive opportunity. How a new plasmonic arrangement is used to mix electrical signals at optical frequencies. The advantages and ...

ANN ARBOR--Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster than today's electronics ...

(Nanowerk News) In the 1880s Heinrich Hertz discovered that a spark jumping between two pieces of metal emits a flash of light – rapidly oscillating electromagnetic waves – which can be picked up by ...