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Molex Looks to Silicon Photonics with Teramount Acquisition
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (302+ words) Optics & Photonics News Building on a collaboration This acquisition comes on the heels Molex's announcement at the 2026 Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference that Teramount's Tera VERSE detachable fiber connectivity product will be integrated into Molex's "one-stop" CPO solution, the Versa…...
A More Versatile Photonic Chip
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (141+ words) Optics & Photonics News "For example, some materials are good at making light directly, others are good at converting existing light to other colors or for realizing things like frequency combs," said Grant Brodnik of the National Institute of Standards and…...
The Lasers That Make Your Screen
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1681+ words) Advanced laser technology stands behind one of the most common consumer products'displays. They are key to industrial production of flexible OLED and micro LED screens. Lasers are essential for manufacturing flexible OLED and micro LED displays. [V. Lombardo / Getty Images] Displays…...
Neural Network Boosts Holographic Storage
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (332+ words) Researchers have developed a new type of holographic data storage that they describe as 3 D, encoding and decoding data using the amplitude, phase and polarization of laser beams. [Image: Xiaodi Tan, Fujian Normal University, China] Scientists in China have reportedly…...
A New Twist on Topological Insulators
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (254+ words) Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed robust optical fiber by spinning the glass preform as they feed it into a 2000 C furnace. This image shows that the fiber guides light even while it is being drawn. [Image: Nathan Roberts]…...
Nonlinear Nonlocal Metasurface Converts and Steers Light
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (339+ words) A rendering of the metasurface chip in action. When hit with an infrared laser, the microscopic device converts the incoming light to a higher frequency and sends it out as a narrow beam that can be precisely directed. [Image: T. Sun]…...
Improving Optical-Fiber Brain Probes
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (256+ words) Illustration of the m Axialtrode, showing how it combines light, electrical signals and medication in a single needle-thin tube that can be used to control and measure activity in different layers of the brain and to deliver medication directly. [Image:…...