Physicists have engineered light to drift sideways in discrete, quantized steps inside a fiber-optic loop, reproducing a signature behavior of the quantum Hall effect without electrons, magnetic ...

Caltech scientists have developed a new way to produce optical frequency combs—important tools in devices that keep time and ...

Caltech scientists have developed a new way to produce optical frequency combs-important tools in devices that keep time and measure distances very ...

Quantum radar leverages quantum entanglement for superior detection in noisy environments, surpassing classical systems with ...

A research team has fabricated a subwavelength grating from an epitaxial molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) layer roughly 42 ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded BlackSky a contract worth up to $99 million to develop a large optical imaging payload intended for future space-based intelligence systems.

LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it ...

As optical technology continues to push toward ever more extreme miniaturization, metalenses are emerging as one of the optical industry's most closely watched inflection points heading into 2026. At ...

Dec. 11—GRAND FORKS — A research infrastructure project by UND will help both local customers and university students communicate with satellites through lasers. The physics and astrophysics assistant ...

A new technical paper titled “Massively parallel and universal approximation of nonlinear functions using diffractive processors” was published by researchers at UCLA. “Nonlinear computation is ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Reported in ...