The Optical sensors market is poised for explosive expansion, driven by surging automotive LiDAR shipments and widespread industrial automation. With manufacturing capacities scaling to millions of ...

A new metasurface lets scientists flip between ultra-stable light vortices, paving the way for tougher, smarter wireless communication.

NASA's Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the ...

From new telescopes going online to another mission to the Moon, NASA has a lot of big changes coming in 2026. Here are some of the most notable ones.

Laser-based data links are increasingly attractive for aircraft and space systems that need to move large volumes of ...

In a recent study, researchers from China have developed a chip-scale LiDAR system that mimics the human eye's foveation by dynamically concentrating high-resolution sensing on regions of interest ...

Voyager Technologies has patented a method of producing fiber optic cable in space. The new fiber will be "ultra-pure, wavelength-engineered" and cause "no interferenc ...

Free-space optical communications (FSOC), which use lasers for data transmission, are a promising approach for achieving high-speed links between aircraft, spacecraft, and ground stations. However, ...

Figure 1: NICT's 7.4 km, 2 Tbit/s horizontal propagation experiment (April 2025). The ST terminal was used as the transmitter and the FX terminal as the receiver. The terminals exchanged pseudo-random ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has successfully demonstrated 2 Tbit/s Free-Space Optical (FSO) communication using small optical communication terminals ...