As network architectures strain under the combined weight of cloud growth, AI acceleration, and rising power constraints, ...

Find out CPO’s 2025 scorecard and what lies ahead for this optical interconnect technology in 2026 and beyond.

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...

On the third floor of the University of Delaware’s Du Pont Hall, electrical engineers analyze delicate, centimeter-sized computer chips on a large optical table surrounded by oscilloscopes, lenses and ...

Researchers found silica can outperform high-index materials for optical metasurfaces. Its chip-making compatibility enables ...

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

Co-packaged optics (CPOs) promise five times the bandwidth of pluggable connections, but the new architecture requires multiple changes to accommodate different applications. The Optical ...

EECS Alum Can Bayram (PhD 11') has been recognized with the Young Scientist Prize in Optics by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), for "Revolutionizing the way graphene has ...

EECS Ph.D. Student Simone Bianconi has been awarded a 2018 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions to ...

Penn State researchers use large language models to streamline metasurface design, significantly reducing the time and ...

Data centers are undergoing a dramatic transformation to reduce the power consumption of high-speed data transmissions by 70% or more with co-packaged optics. By moving optical transceivers from the ...