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World’s first programmable photonic waveguide brings flexibility to quantum light

In a groundbreaking leap for photonics, scientists have created the world’s first programmable nonlinear photonic waveguide, ...
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World’s First Programmable Nonlinear Photonics Chip

This allows multiple optical functions on a single chip, unlocking new possibilities for tunable light sources, optical ...
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NTT creates chip that rewrites itself using light patterns

Partnership with Cornell and Stanford pushes beyond paradigm where photonic devices perform only single, fixed tasks ...

NTT Research Collaboration Breaks the "One Device, One Function" Paradigm with World’s First Programmable Nonlinear Photonics Chip

NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO: 9432), announced that its Physics and Informatics (PHI) Lab, working with Cornell University and Stanford University, has developed the world's first ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Implementing AI Activation Functions

Activation functions play a critical role in AI inference, helping to ferret out nonlinear behaviors in AI models. This makes them an integral part of any neural network, but nonlinear functions can ...

Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color

Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without ...