Narrow Main Beam, Low Side Lobes! High-Performance Electro-Optic Beam Steering with Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Optical ...

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 ...

Once online in 2026, DSS-23 will be the fifth of six new beam waveguide antennas to be added to the network; DSS-23 will boost the DSN's capacity and enhance NASA's deep space communications ...

“We’ve laid the groundwork in the past and shown it’s possible to guide light through liquid channels,” said Holger Schmidt, associate professor of electrical engineering at UCSC. “But this is the ...

Reliably guiding and capturing optical waves is central to the functioning of various contemporary technologies, including communication and information processing systems. The most conventional ...

Portland, Ore. – Cornell University says it has fabricated the components necessary for silicon optical computers that use light instead of electrons. “Photonic microchips are now a reality,” said ...