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 ...

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 ...

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.