The National Science Foundation (NSF) will award $15 million over the next two years to the Rochester/Finger Lakes region of New York to establish a national hub for laser science and development. RIT ...

US Defense firm NUBURU has reported encouraging initial results from tests of its laser ...

Laser technology is used in many areas, where precise measurements are required and in communication. This means that they are important for everything from self-driving cars to the fiber optic ...

Maintaining reliable communication during space missions is critical. Future missions—especially crewed missions to Mars—are ...

Zürich-based deeptech startup Aylight has closed a pre-seed funding round to develop chip-scale lasers that generate multiple ...

Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. has announced the development of innovative optics manufacturing processes aimed at creating the world's first direct-to-eye projection technology for augmented, virtual, ...

Invented by T. Tajima and J. Dawson, laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) harnesses the power of high-intensity laser pulses to drive plasma waves with acceleration gradients orders of magnitude higher ...

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, Nov. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syntec Optics (Nasdaq: OPTX), a leading provider of mission-critical products to advanced technology defense, biomedical, and communications ...

Moving photonic ICs into the same package as silicon helps improve performance, but lasers remain outside. A new monolithic laser array allows hundreds of colors, each individually software-tunable ...

Experts warn Europe must scale optical laser communications across its sovereign space networks, from IRIS2 to HydRON, to ...

Our research is supported through a 7-km atmospheric optics testbed with continuously operating sensors for measurement of atmospheric turbulence strength and meteorological data. The lab's research ...

As networking vendors look to address the bandwidth, throughput and latency demands of AI and high-performance computing, a relatively new method of melding copper connections with optical technology ...