All-optical photonic devices are crucial for many important photonic technologies and applications, ranging from optical communication to quantum information processing. Conventional design of ...

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 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 ...

Optical communication has revolutionized long-distance data transfer, but scaling it down to microchips is tougher. Now, though, a new technique means optical components can be integrated into general ...

A single MXene-based optical gate switches between seven Boolean logic functions via voltage, enabling trainable photonic ...

Numerous component technologies are in use today to realize the range of passive and active functions needed for optical transmission systems. Many companies hope to provide lower prices and increased ...

NEC and NTT have conducted a first-of-its-kind transoceanic-class 7,280km transmission experiment using coupled multicore fibre. The two Japanese firms expect the work they have been carrying out will ...