Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in many conventional systems.

Researchers have built a small-scale computer that runs on thermal noise, the random electrical fluctuations that conventional chip designers spend billions trying to suppress. The device, called a ...

Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as ...

Penn engineers have taken quantum networking from the lab to Verizon’s live fiber network, using a silicon “Q-chip” that speaks the same Internet Protocol as the modern web. The system pairs classical ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Denver have found a novel way to create extreme electromagnetic fields, much like those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on a thumb-sized chip ...

For experiments that require ultra-precise measurements and control over atoms -- think two-photon atomic clocks, cold-atom interferometer sensors and quantum gates -- lasers are the technology of ...

The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors, each of ...

A programmable photonic circuit has been developed that can execute various quantum algorithms and is potentially highly scalable. This device could pave the way for large-scale quantum computers ...