A string of recent experiments has moved desktop-scale particle accelerators from theoretical curiosity to working prototypes ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface - a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

A light pulse is technically empty, yet capable of carrying a trillion photons in a single burst. That is part of what makes ...

A new breakthrough in wireless technology could dramatically boost internet speeds while cutting energy use—by switching from radio waves to light. Researchers have developed a tiny chip packed with ...

In experiments on mice, the patches reduced melanoma lesions by an impressive 97 percent while causing no harm to surrounding ...

A chip‑scale laser array with integrated beam shaping enables ultrafast, energy‑efficient optical wireless links for indoor ...

UK team develops chip-scale platform integrating 5x5 VCSEL array and custom beam-shaping optics Most wireless data today ...

Researchers have demonstrated a compact optical wireless transmitter that delivers very high data rates while consuming ...

Laurynas Maciulis is the co-founder and CEO of Astrolight. The experiment was among the first to test laser communications ...

For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully harnessed a rare orbital transition in atoms of ...

A team of researchers created an ultra-thin chip to study infrared light, next thing they knew it was producing a green beam ...