A fortuitous discovery opens new perspectives for our communication systems. While working on improving LiDAR systems, ...

Photonic chip can now divide a single laser beam into multiple precise colours, allowing several data streams to travel ...

Photonics breakthrough came from a lucky lab mistake A lab mishap has accidentally given birth to a laser-spewing chip that ...

Led by Michal Lipson, the team has developed a chip that can generate powerful “frequency combs,” special light sources made up of dozens of evenly spaced wavelengths. A few years ago, while working ...

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The technology hinges on what physicists call a frequency comb, a laser that emits many distinct colors, or wavelengths, evenly spaced across the optical spectrum. Each ...

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems completes Iron Beam laser interceptor that destroys rockets and drones at a fraction of the ...

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 ...

Using a laser to stimulate a photocurrent and a magnetic field to control it, researchers have devised a scheme for measuring a current’s flow stream. Why there’s a need to assess current-flow ...