Scientists create liquid light, get one step closer to spintronics
Researchers from Cambridge have created a semiconductor so small that it blurs the line between electricity and light.
Electroluminescent diamonds could serve as the heart of quantum networks
Doped, carefully point-flawed diamonds are crucial to this quantum communications architecture.
Here's why we don't have light-based computing just yet
Optical computing could be the future of processing -- so why is it taking so long to replace electricity with light?
Researchers develop 'Superman memory crystal' that could store 360TB of data forever
Researchers at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center have developed a new form of data storage that could potentially survive for billions of years.
Slime can see: Living lenses use micro-optics to sense direction of light
Science has just determined that Synechocystis, a kind of cyanobacteria that forms pond slime, is a living camera eye that can see using photonic nanojets. The algae is watching you. Roll for initiative.
Automated design process creates smallest, most efficient photonic switch ever
By using an automated design algorithm, researchers at Stanford University have built the world's smallest and most efficient silicon based photonic wavelength splitter.
Nanophotonics: Chronicling the rise of tiny optical devices
The squeezing of light down to incredibly small scales is attractive in many areas, in particular computation: Researchers believe the barriers presented with developing electronics to keep up with Moore's Law, in the form of bandwidth and energy dissipation, may be overcome using light-based technologies.
New phase-change material lights the way to all-optical, super-fast computing
British researchers have created a new material that could allow for the creation of all-optical computers -- computers that are orders of magnitude faster and power efficient than today's hot, sweaty electronic beasts. This isn't some crazy, hard-to-fabricate material like graphene, either -- we're talking about a special breed of chalcogenide glass.
Researchers create first room-temperature, nanoscale lasers: A major step towards optical computers
Nanophotonics researchers at Arizona State University have created the world's first electrically powered room-temperature nanolasers. These lasers are the single most important step towards building computer chips that use light instead of electricity for ultra-fast and efficient on- and off-chip communications.