You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Optical fibre communication systems have revolutionised global telecommunications by harnessing light‐based signal transmission through highly engineered glass or plastic fibres. The principle of ...

The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has announced progress in the development of its LUCAS system, involving inter-satellite optical communication in space using invisible laser light. It has ...

NASA is building optical communications technologies into its networks, using infrared laser links to offer missions higher data rates than comparable radio frequency systems. NASA’s Low-Cost Optical ...

The OSIRIS program aims to develop optical communications technology and systems for the direct downlink from and the direct connection between small satellites – such as those used in earth ...

Free-space optical communications (FSOC), which use lasers for data transmission, are a promising approach for achieving high-speed links between aircraft, spacecraft, and ground stations. However, ...

Schematic of the optical cavity with a one molecule thick layer of tungsten diselenide (WSe2) at the antinode, the point where the light field intensity is at its maximum. Credit: Deng Laboratory, ...

Researchers have developed a fiber neural network system that performs intelligent processing of optical communication signals directly in the light domain. This approach integrates optical ...

An 'all-optical switch' is a device that uses light to control other optical signals without the need for electrical conversion, saving both time and energy in optical communications. A research team ...

Corning Incorporated GLW is benefiting from healthy traction in the Optical Communications segment. The company generated $1.56 billion in revenues from this segment in the second quarter, registering ...