Japan research institute sets new record for long haul transmission over 4-core fiber.

New platform combines patterned excitation and wide-field detection.

Aim is to mass-produce the miniature component for €1, targeting diverse self-test applications within two years.

University of Houston device could improve image quality in endoscopes and cameras.

Tampere University develops new way to exploit polarization in ultra-fast lasers.

NIST puts optical aberrations to good use as basis for calibration.

Télécom Paris, TU Darmstadt and UCLA demonstrate FSO networking with two uni-directionally coupled QCLs.

Effective range of “more than 1km” claimed by developers Ministry of Defense and Elbit Systems.

University of California, Berkeley develops sensor for faint electric fields around living cells.

Development promises: better high-capacity telecoms; improved potential to find exoplanets; and better atomic clocks.

University of Bordeaux models tissue behavior to improve subsequent AO performance.

Australian National University-led team demonstrates visible-convertible infrared imaging via non-linear metasurfaces.