WASHINGTON, D.C., March 31, 2022 — A team at the University of Grenoble Alpes-CNRS has created a radio-frequency (RF) correlator, based on a photonic platform, that is suitable for analog wideband RF signal processing and that enables the real-time calculation of RF signal...

TOKYO, July 22, 2021 — A research team led by Benjamin J. Puttnam at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) reported that it transmitted data over a distance of more than 3000 km (1860 miles) at a rate of 319 Tbit/s and a transmission...

Jan 20, 2020 — Metamaterials — engineered to have unique photonic and other properties — can enable previously difficult or impossible-to-achieve performance. Radar or lidar steering, for instance, can be achieved inexpensively without moving parts....

ERLANGEN, Germany, July 5, 2017 — Quantum-limited coherent measurements of optical signals were sent from a satellite in Earth’s orbit to an optical ground station over a distance of 38,600 kilometers (almost 24,000 miles). Excess noise was bound. The precise Earth-based...

Feb 14, 2014 — Covert IR taggants represent a strong photonic tool in identifying key personnel and materials in both military and civilian applications. Covert infrared taggants are embedded markers that can emit coded optical signals outside of the visual...

Feb 14, 2014 — Imaging technology is a real game changer for Dallas Cowboys fans and refs at AT&T Stadium. Figuring out which team came up with the football during a postfumble player pileup has gotten a whole lot easier – at least, it has for Dallas...

BERKELEY, Calif., March 28, 2012 — For the first time, optical nanoantennas can harness the power of plasmonics to study the dynamics of cell membrane biology. A unique artificial biological platform combines a fluid bilayer of lipid molecules with a fixed pattern of nanoantennas to...

BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 21, 2011 — A newly developed nanophotonic endoscope can take high-resolution images of the inside of a single living cell and deliver therapeutic drugs and other cargo without injuring or damaging the cell. Fluorescence confocal image of a single living...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 30, 2011 — A recently discovered "diode for light" could enable the creation of photonic chips, paving the way for computing with light. Currently, in most communication systems, data travels via light beams transmitted through optical fibers. Once the...

SINGAPORE, Nov. 23, 2011 — A synthesis of lanthanide-doped core-shell nanocrystals has resulted in advanced light-control properties for bioimaging applications including cancer diagnostics, medical imaging and therapeutic delivery. A research team from the National...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 28, 2011 — A new low-noise oscillator is generating microwave signals more pure and stable than those from conventional electronic sources. The apparatus could improve signal stability and resolution in radar, communications and navigation systems, and in...

Jun 9, 2011 — A rapidly growing branch of physics promises all-optical computer chips and ultrafast computing speeds. Plasmonics, also called “light on a wire,” exploits the nanoscale interaction of light and metal and is a focus of research in the...

DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 — By integrating microscopically small lasers with thin film-light guides on silicon, Duke University electrical engineers have demonstrated how optical signals could replace copper in a host of electronic products. The structures on silicon not...

GRENOBLE, France, Oct. 27, 2010 — CEA-Leti, a European research and development institute in the field of silicon photonics technology, announced that it has demonstrated the efficient integration of silicon photonic devices with fully complementary metal-oxide semiconductor...

Jan 4, 2010 — Fujitsu Ltd. of Kawasaki, Japan, a provider of information technology-based business solutions, has received a patent for an optical transmitting apparatus. The device consists of a unit that branches an input light and performs independent phase...

Jan 4, 2010 — Well, now. You’ve read the previous articles covering the ongoing and upcoming trends in lasers, optics and imaging, but you’re probably thinking that there’s more to photonics than those technologies. You are correct; there is much more to the...

Oct 1, 2009 — After earning a PhD at Caltech, Nader Engheta spent four years at Kaman Sciences Corp. before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he is now the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 17, 2008 – Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the first tunable “noiseless” amplifier. By significantly reducing the...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March 19, 2008 -- Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in collaboration with spinoff company PicoSolve Inc., have demonstrated a measurement method to analyze optical signals with information encoded in intensity and in the optical carrier phase....

CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 5, 2006 -- Physicists have discovered a way to manipulate the transmission of optical signals in tiny wires, dramatically slowing, stopping or even speeding them up to velocities faster than the speed of light -- a major advance that could open the door to a...

Dec 1, 2005 — High-power fiber lasers are rapidly becoming an alternative to bigger, bulkier and less energy-efficient lasers. The vital component that enables fiber lasers is specialty fiber, which is optimized for applications that require enhanced optical...

Jan 1, 2003 — The RightWave tunable dispersion-compensating module enables transmission systems to operate at ultrahigh data rates of 40 Gb/s. Its manufacturer, OFS, Specialty Photonics Div. of Somerset, N.J., says that the module eliminates the adverse effects...