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 ...

A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum computing. A new generation of ...

Physicists have forced light to behave like electrons trapped in a magnetic field, reproducing the quantum Hall effect with photons for the first time. The experiment, carried out on an optical fiber ...

Raman distributed optical fiber sensing has been demonstrated to be a mature and versatile scheme that presents great flexibility and effectivity for the distributed temperature measurement of a wide ...

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

Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as ...

Low-power optical device achieves around 100 times amplification using just a couple of hundred milliwatts of input power ...

While the basic form of QKD enables information to be transmitted securely, it does have some weak points. One of them is that a malicious third party could steal the key by hacking the devices the ...

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced a collaboration with US Conec to become a licensee of PRIZM® TMT optical ...

And because of this simple shift, from current to light, optical fibre is now helping to power not only our internet connections, but also sensing technologies, industrial monitoring systems, and even ...