As the cd is gradually succeeded by the dvd for recordable as well as prerecorded formats, and as developers prepare Blu-ray — the next generation of optical discs that hold six times more data than ...

A research team from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made strides in the theoretical design of nonlinear optical (NLO) materials by ...

This research is expected to open up new frontiers in the realms of optical computing and machine learning. "In the burgeoning field of all-optical machine learning, nonlinear optical layers are key ...

You look at an image of a black circle on a grid of circular dots. It resembles a hole burned into a piece of white mesh material, although it’s actually a flat, stationary image on a screen or piece ...

Modern information technology (IT) relies on division of labour. Photons carry data around the world and electrons process them. But, before optical fibres, electrons did both—and some people hope to ...

In the present big data era, data is growing exponentially, and optical networks serve as the backbone for high-capacity and long-distance data transmission. Optical networks are always large scale, ...