Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

Researchers in Israel have created a microscopic optical device that could simplify high-power laser ...

Researchers have developed a microscopic 3D-printed optical device that can efficiently combine light from dozens of small semiconductor lasers into a single multimode optical fiber with very low loss ...

OFC 2026: new launches round-up, part II. 19 Mar 2026. Another selection of significant announcements from the optical ...

Researchers have found a way to use ultrafast laser pulses to precisely activate quantum light sources inside diamond, a step ...

Tunable lasers for fiber-optic communications may help reduce the amount of gear that telecommunications companies and their equipment makers have to worry about. Michael Kanellos is editor at large ...

Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light. Its newest product, debuting this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ...

Most lasers have operated along similar physical principles: a small, precisely dimensioned, closed cavity containing specific materials that will get incoming photons excited enough to band together ...

Australian-US team says wavefront-shaping of input light lifts power threshold for SBS scattering by an order of magnitude. A narrowband laser beam shaped by a spatial light modulator excites many ...

Astrolight CEO Laurynas Mačiulis explains how laser satellite communication could ease spectrum congestion, increase data capacity, and raise new engineering and policy questions for space ...