Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Imagine shrinking light down to the size of a tiny water molecule, unlocking a world of quantum possibilities. This has been a long-held dream in the realms of light science and technology. Recent ...

They distribute data and can separate cells from one other. But can they adequately light a room? Photos: Fiber optics lighting the way Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...

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 ...

Visible and infrared light can carry more data than radio waves, but has always been confined to a hard-wired, fiber-optic cable. A research team has now made a major advance toward the dream of ...

In a discovery that blurs the line between biology and technology, scientists have found that heart-shaped clams use fiber optic–like structures to channel sunlight through their shells in much the ...