The AI market is red hot in 2023, but for the technology to remain in high demand in the years ahead, it needs to deliver more efficient and affordable solutions. Photonics-enabled...

University of Konstanz physicists in Germany achieve electron signals of attosecond duration—blazingly fast at five billionths of a nanosecond—and redefine what’s possible for...

For the sixth straight year, Laser Focus World held its Innovators Awards program, which celebrates the disparate and innovative technologies, products, and systems found in the...

An achievement in organic solar cell development may transform solar energy and the devices that use it.

University of Washington researchers create a chip-scale laser beam-steering device—no moving parts—for scanning LiDAR systems. By exploiting Brillouin scattering, the device ...

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirrors are making their way into new applications after decades of intensive development efforts.

In this editorial, John Dexheimer looks at whether the drive for reshoring is rhetoric and unintended consequences for the photonics sector.

Healthcare represents a world of opportunity for smartphones when complementing hyperspectral imaging techniques with an AI-based algorithm.

Researchers in China develop fiber-optic tool based on engineered cells (FOPECs) for real-time sensing of neurochemicals at high specificity in a variety of animal species and...

In this interview, Jose Pozo, Optica’s CTO, talks to Scott Faris, CEO of Infleqtion, about his career as a serial business leader and entrepreneur and what’s next for quantum ...

As network engineers strive to meet the ever-growing demand for bandwidth, their choice of passive optical network (PON) components, including connectors, splitters, and muxes...