There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

Lithium niobate (LN), first synthesized 70 years ago, has been widely used in diverse
applications ranging from communications to quantum optics. These high-volume …

In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters,. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium, a …

Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

The growth of computing needs for artificial intelligence and machine learning is critically
challenging data communications in today's data-centre systems. Data movement …

Optical frequency combs offer an unrivalled degree of frequency measurement precision
that underpins the advance of modern technology in both fundamental science and …

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser
technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic …

Microcombs have sparked a surge of applications over the past decade, ranging from optical
communications to metrology,,–. Despite their diverse deployment, most microcomb-based …

Modern computation based on von Neumann architecture is now a mature cutting-edge
science. In the von Neumann architecture, processing and memory units are implemented …