Over the past decades, "storing light" has appeared as a rather controversial statement, given that a photon's inherent nature hinders its spatial confinement. The first research efforts in ...

A new EU project that aims to develop a 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) optical random access memory (RAM) chip has just kicked off. This chip will be the first of its kind.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. has realized an over-100-bit optical random access memory (RAM) by integrating ultrasmall optical memories based on photonic crystal nanocavities. This device will ...