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• A Single-Photon Server with Just One Atom

  A team of physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has built a single-photon server b... Read more
  Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 12:17 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Optical computing

• Research focused on enabling desktop computers to see the light

  University of Bath researchers are are attempting to build an ultra-high-speed desktop computer that runs on light rather than electronics, using attosecond (10^-18 second) light pulses. ... Read more
  Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:23 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Optical computing

• MIT 'optics on a chip' may revolutionize telecom, computing

  MIT researchers have developed a novel way to integrate photonic circuitry on a silicon chip. The invention will enable integrated devices to be mass-man... Read more
  Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 11:45 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Optical computing

• Nanoscopic 'coaxial cable' transmits light

  Boston College researchers have developed nanoscopic coaxial cables using nanotubes that transmit light and could lead to innovations in solar cells, artificial retinas and quantum computing. ... Read more
  Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 8:50 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Carbon nanotubes, Quantum computers, Solar energy, Artificial eyes, Optical computing, Fiber optics

• Photons trapped by trick of the light

  Optical microchips developed at IBM that can store light for short periods of time could one day be used in optical buffers in superfast optical processors with hundreds on cores on a chip. ... Read more
  Posted Monday, December 25, 2006 7:27 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Optical computing

• A Chip That Can Transfer Data Using Laser Light

  Intel and University of California, Santa Barbara researchers plan to announce on Monday that they have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams. The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data bet... Read more
  Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 8:54 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Optical computing