Mantis shrimp are known to possess one of the most unusual and complex visual systems in the entire animal kingdom. Their ...

Netherlands-based EpoQ has won PhotonDelta’s 2026 Global Photonics Engineering Contest with a proposal to use integrated ...

A landmark result five years ago showed that optogenetic therapy had partially restored the sight of a single patient with an ...

Researchers have focused the attosecond pulses from the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) through total-reflection optics to create record peak intensity ...

Scientists in Europe have demonstrated experimentally how a continuous-wave source of entangled states can be used to discretely entangle two distant quantum bits (qubits) without the complex control ...

In the technological rivalry to make the best see-through glasses for augmented reality (AR), a key battleground is improving field of view (FOV). The German specialty glass manufacturer Schott has ...

Integrated electronics reorganized the 20 th century. By learning to pattern and control the flow of electrons on a chip, the integrated circuit put billions—now trillions—of transistors onto a sliver ...

Much of this feature is based on research by the author for J. Hecht, City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (Oxford, 1999). Here are some additional references of interest touched on in the story.

Just over eleven years earlier, in 1906, a young scientist joined the staff of the recently founded Geophysical Laboratory (GL) at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. His name was Frederick ...

Optical solutions company Rochester Precision Optics (RPO), USA, announced in early March that it had secured a US$50 million financial commitment. The company says the funds will allow it to expand ...

Hyperscale cloud providers are driving the demand for high-capacity optical connectivity as they expand their AI and data center infrastructure. In response, optical fiber manufacturer Lightera, USA, ...