Infrared images from Webb are revealing galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at a time when the...

Meet Myung-Ki Kim, an associate professor at Korea University’s Light Engineering Laboratory.

A novel platform integrates terahertz photonics with planarized low-loss polymers—enabling signal propagation with passive elements and coherent source integration for broadband...

Photonics can help the semiconductor industry move at the speed of light.

Aerotech’s Brian O’Connor discusses the importance of precision motion control and how his company is navigating the ever-challenging supply environment.

A new spectrometer tool could enhance universal surveillance of malaria and someday guide existing efforts to eliminate the disease.

Semiconductors were the only materials that couldn’t be bonded using lasers, but a new solution taps compact nanosecond fiber sources emitting in the infrared domain. This breakthrough...

A hyperdimensional microlaser chip that communicates via qudits doubles the quantum information space of previous on-chip lasers—improving security and robustness far beyond existing...

By integrating a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) component with microwave photonics functional modules into one circuit, researchers built a fully integrated microwave photonic...

Using a photosynthesis-based model, researchers are working to better understand how light could boost agrivoltaics and clean energy production.

A new combination method pairing spectroscopy and EEG could lead to better, more effective treatments for the brain diseases.