Engineering physicist Christine Tremblay talks to Joe McEntee about the joys of a career spent making fibre-optic networks cheaper, smarter and more resilient, opening the way for telecommunications ...

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 ...

Integrating plasmonic metasurfaces on optical fibre tips forming so-called metafibers enrichs the functionalities of an ordinary optical fibre, yielding a variety of advanced applications such as ...

A new light control system created at CU Boulder could increase the capacity for fiber optic technologies, enable thinner medical endoscopes and allow for stronger industrial lasers. Many current ...

In the internet industry, it’s known as the “last-mile” problem: Millions of people and businesses around the world aren’t able to access broadband because they’re missing the final leg of a broadband ...

A doughnut-shaped laser was used to create a 45-metre-long optical fibre out of air, and a pulse of light was then sent through it. The technology could eventually be used to detect radioactive ...

A new flexible, artifact-free and lensless fibre-based imager can reconstruct high-quality images thanks to a trained deep neural network. The device, which is the first of its kind, transmits the ...

Much of this story is going to sound like hokum, but bear with me because doughnut-shaped laser beams have become my new favourite scientific innovation. Especially since scientists were able to ...

Bismuth-doped fibre amplifiers and lasers have emerged as promising alternatives to conventional rare-earth-doped devices, providing a broader spectral coverage that is particularly beneficial for ...

Foro Energy is commercializing high power lasers for the oil, natural gas, geothermal, and mining industries. Foro energy can deliver multi-kW laser power over multi-mile distances. In the past 15 ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Boreas D90 INS integrated with LVS in front of the Tesla Model Y. (Advanced Navigation) Australian engineering company Advanced Navigation has demonstrated its laser velocity sensor (LVS) fused with ...