SHANGHAI, March 28, 2024 — The massive amount of data processing required to image whole-brain activity makes real-time analysis and closed-loop research into neuronal dynamics extremely challenging. Yet, real-time analysis of large-scale brain imaging is crucial to understanding how the brain functions. Inspired by the data processing techniques used in astronomy, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a big data processing system for neuronal activity. Known as the FX system, it operates in

MERRIMACK, N.H., Aug. 25, 2022 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded BAE Systems a $17.5 million contract for the Generating RF with Photonic Oscillators for Low Noise (GRYPHON) program. The technology developed through the program could enable an...

SYDNEY, May 10, 2022 — AI robotics and navigation technology company Advanced Navigation has acquired Australian National University (ANU) spinout Vai Photonics. Vai is developing photonic sensors for precision navigation and joins Advanced Navigation to commercialize its...

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...

VARENNES, Quebec, Feb. 28, 2022 — A research group at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Quebec has achieved broadband terahertz (THz) signal processing by directly engineering the wire surfaces of metal-wire waveguides. The approach allowed...

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Nov. 17, 2020 — Researchers from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre have demonstrated an all-silicon optical modulator at 100 Gbit/s and beyond, without the use of digital signal processing. The transmitter nearly doubles the...

NOZAY, France, March 12, 2018 — Researchers report the real-time, bidirectional transmission of 78 interleaved, 400 gigabit per second (Gb/s) channels with a 31.2 terabit per second (Tb/s) fiber capacity. The C-band signals were transmitted over a single, 90-kilometer-long...

CAMPERDOWN, Australia, April 6, 2017 — Radio frequency (RF) signal control at sub-nanosecond time scales has been demonstrated on a chip-scale optical device, a discovery that could pave the way for improved wireless communication systems. To reduce time delay and improve the...

BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 22, 2013 — An IR technique identifies and characterizes individual graphene layers in a large stack, providing information on the electronic properties of each layer. Such information opens the possibility of graphene-based optical devices for communications,...

ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 14, 2013 — Work to increase the speed and capacity of silicon chips using novel lasers has received an additional $353,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. University of Texas Arlington electrical engineering professor Weidong Zhou said the work...

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL – The discovery that the force of light in a nanoscale switch is strong enough to move an optical waveguide without having to rely on the device’s mechanical structure could dramatically increase Internet download speeds while also consuming...

BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany, Nov. 2, 2012 — Overlapping plasmonic fields, created by positioning two gold nanoparticles on DNA origami, form a nanolens that acts as a nanoantenna capable of enhancing the fluorescent emission of a single molecule, researchers in Germany report.

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Oct. 3, 2012 — The discovery that the force of light in a nanoscale switch is strong enough to move an optical waveguide without having to rely on the device’s mechanical structure could dramatically increase Internet download speeds while also consuming...

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...

PHILADELPHIA – One-atom-thick metamaterials that can now be made by controlling the conductivity of sheets of graphene could have wide applications in imaging, signal processing and telecommunications. The study of metamaterials is based on the idea that...

HANGZHOU, China, and BEIJING – A single-nanowire laser has been developed that, unlike earlier ones, which operated mostly in multiple modes, operates in a controllable single mode. Researchers from Zhejiang and Peking universities used a nanowire between 50 and 75 μm in...

NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2010 — Knovel announced yesterday the launch of a new subject area – optics and photonics – bringing the total number of subject areas it offers to 25. The company is a provider of web-based applications that integrate technical information...

MALIBU, Calif., Nov. 12, 2010 — DARPA has awarded HRL Laboratories LLC a $500,000 contract to develop Phaser, or photonic analog signal-processing engines with reconfigurability. The Phaser program was established to address the Department of Defense’s growing need for...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, Nov. 2, 2010 — In October, Eindhoven saw the kick-off of the international R&D project Paradigm (Photonic Advanced Research and Development for Integrated Generic Manufacturing). Led by Eindhoven University of Technology, the project is intended to standardize...

LYON, France – Prices of uncooled IR detectors and cameras are falling, thanks to numerous technological and business developments. Driven by this cost reduction, the market volume for thermography and IR vision will triple by 2015, according to Yole...

NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France, Oct. 26, 2010 — European scientists and engineers have joined forces to pursue a visionary concept to employ photonic crystals for ultrafast signal processing with integrated optical circuits. The Copernicus project, which runs until the end of 2012, has...

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 9, 2010 — Researchers have developed a new data transmission system that could substantially improve the transmission capacity and energy efficiency of the world's optical communication networks. Working on the European Union-funded Framework Program 7...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A three-port quantum well transistor laser developed by Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak Jr. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is rewriting a major current law. Thanks to this device, the behavior of photons, electrons and...

ATLANTA, Feb. 24, 2010 – A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could one day be designed with the properties needed to serve as the founda...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 20, 2009 – Electrical engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have made a microwave signal mixer from a tunnel-junction transistor laser, an innovation that should lead to higher-speed electronics and higher-performance integrated circuits.