Optical computing - using light rather than electricity to perform calculations - could pay dividends for both conventional computers and quantum computers, largely hypothetical devices that could ...
The idea of optical computing—the use of photons instead of electrons to perform computational operations—has been around for decades. However, interest has resurged in recent years; the potential for ...
Researchers demonstrated a way to manipulate electrons in graphene using pulses of light that last less than one thousands trillionth (one quadrillionth) of a second. By leveraging a quantum effect ...