TOKYO — Running toward a planned commercial launch in August, Fujitsu Ltd. began sample shipments Thursday of a new disk drive that will support the 2.3GB version of its rewritable magneto-optical ...

Processing information in the optical domain promises advantages in both speed and energy efficiency over existing digital hardware for a variety of emerging applications in artificial intelligence ...

A research team from Tohoku University and Kyocera Corp. has developed a new magneto-optical material—a nanocomposite magnetic garnet film—that can be deposited directly onto silicon substrates while ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, light-induced thermomagnetic recording in a magnetic thin-film on silicon waveguides. The new writing technique is poised to enable ...

TOKYO – Sony Corp. will launch a new optical disc format in November that allows for storage of up to 23.3GB per disc, the company said Tuesday. The format, called Professional Disc for Data, is being ...

There was an odd era at the start of the 1990s when CDs had taken the lead from vinyl in pre-recorded music, but for consumer recordable formats the analogue cassette was still king. A variety of ...