When four Artemis II astronauts ride Orion around the Moon, the most radical part of the mission may not be the trajectory ...

The US Navy has revealed new details about a laser weapon test conducted last ...

The Navy sees HELIOS and other directed energy weapons as critical capabilities, but has faced persistent challenges in ...

They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of ...

Traditionally, spacecraft communications to and from Earth use radio signals, which travel at the speed of light. That means ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

The development of an ammonium fluorooxoborate crystal marks a breakthrough in vacuum ultraviolet laser technology, promising ...

Atomic layer processing improves optical performance in SiC photonic devices, crucial for developing efficient quantum systems and integrated photonic circuits.

Optical photothermal infrared (O-PTIR) spectroscopy is an infrared super-resolution measurement technique where a shorter ...

nLIGHT, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASR), a leading provider of high-power lasers for mission-critical directed energy, optical sensing, and advanced manufacturing applications, today announced it will showcase a ...

Transcelestial, a startup developing optical communications technologies, has signed an agreement with Gilmour Space Technologies.