The computer industry has already acknowledged ... The increased use of optical components that require little or, in the case of passive devices, no heat dissipation may prove very important.

MIT researchers have created an elastic fiber computer that can be woven into clothing to monitor the wearer’s health and ...

Optical components beyond lenses and an excellent example of a high-performance optical system – the human eye. The mathematical tools required for analysis of high-performance systems are complicated ...

Optical computer chips use the same basic principle ... and doing so at a massive scale with millions of components working together." Australia is making a billion-dollar bet on a "useful ...

compared to the theoretical limit of 33% on systems using linear optical components," said Kejie Fang, an Illinois professor of electrical and computer engineering and the project lead.