A project at USC Keck School of Medicine and Caltech has developed an imaging platform offering improved views of both blood vessels and tissue. Described in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the new ...

Microsupercapacitors powering an electronic watch. Credit: Jilin University. A project at China's Jilin University has demonstrated a method for turning natural leather into a flexible wearable energy ...

The high-power semiconductor and fiber laser manufacturer nLight says it has won another significant contract to provide a high-energy source for a laser weapon. It has signed a $34.5 million deal to ...

Edmund Optics, a manufacturer of laser optics coatings, components, and assemblies optimized for high-power laser systems, has expanded its footprint in Oldsmar, FL, USA. Its new, state-of-the-art ...

Optical communication technologies require large-capacity data transmission with minimal power consumption. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have attracted significant attention as a ...

California-based photonics giant Lumentum says that it is investing heavily in indium phosphide (InP) manufacturing capacity, to ensure that supply can meet the expected surge in demand over the next ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) computing giant Nvidia has announced details of how it is adopting silicon photonics and co-packaged optics (CPO) technology to deliver massive scaling in AI architecture ...

Avicena, a Sunnyvale, CA-based developer of ultra-low power high-density microLED-based interconnects, has announced that it has raised $65 million in Series B Funding, bringing the company's total ...

Aeva, the Silicon Valley company developing advanced optical sensors for transportation applications, says it has been selected to take part in a German project to deliver an automated driverless ...

Invisix Measuring Systems, a Netherlands-based startup established by an ASML team working on a new way to inspect semiconductor structures using soft X-ray light, has raised €20 million in a round of ...

Lumbird, the France-headquartered laser company, has confirmed a slight hit to its profitability after half-yearly sales in its photonics division fell 6 per cent year-on-year. For the first six ...

Engineers from NASA are to test a suite of new laser technologies from an aircraft this summer for Earth science remote sensing. The lidar instruments could also be used to improve models of the ...