In a key step toward making large-scale optical neural networks practical, researchers have demonstrated a first-of-its-kind multilayer all-optical artificial neural network. Researchers detail their ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have invented a new component for all-optical computing, that might bring this interesting technology out into the light. Optical computing is tempting but ...

Optical fibers transmit information at the speed of light over thousands of kilometers. These properties have enabled their ...

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS are images that trick the brain into seeing things that aren’t necessarily there. One optical illusion has had viewers baffled, asking them to decide whether the lines are parallel ...

AI and machine-learning techniques have become a major focus of everything from cloud computing services to cell phone manufacturers. Unfortunately, our existing processors are a bad match for the ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Reported in ...

From a brick wall to the dress, we may be the most technologically advanced generation, but there's nothing we enjoy more than a good mental magic trick. It should come as no surprise, then, that any ...

Visual Optical Illusion Test: Try to test your observation skills and eyesight by looking at the horizontal lines in this optical illusion image. Are the horizontal lines parallel or do they slope ...