A German satellite transmitted a laser signal to a ground station mounted on a Jeep in a breakthrough test that could significantly alter space-to-Earth communication, speeding it up and avoiding ...

Optical laser links, on the other hand, provide 10 to 100 times more bandwidth than RF communications, with smaller power requirements and greater security through their narrow, focused beams.

Demonstrations of optical communications technologies occurred in the mid-’90s. The Communications Research Laboratory in Japan, for example, ... That beam becomes a fiber-like waveguide through space ...

In a significant scientific achievement, NASA has successfully transmitted a laser signal over an astounding distance of 290 million miles - the greatest distance between Mars and Earth. This ...

The research, “Compact high-resolution FBG strain interrogator based on laser-written 3D scattering structure in flat optical fiber,” published in Scientific Reports 2023, demonstrates a fiber Bragg ...

An experiment aboard NASA’s Psyche mission achieved “first light” by sending and receiving its first deep-space laser communications from far beyond the moon.

And the system employs a commercial off-the-shelf laser, the same laser used in automobile manufacturing to cut out hoods. The weapon can be placed on an adjustable tripod for static ground ...

A doughnut-shaped laser was used to create a 45-metre-long optical fibre out of air, and a pulse of light was then sent through it. The technology could eventually be used to detect radioactive ...

The Android Authority team is here at MWC 2025, and we got a chance to get a brief hands-on with the Xiaomi Modular Optical System, a new concept phone that adds a big lens to what is a modified ...

For the last ten to fifteen years, optical drives have been fading out of existence. There’s little reason to have them around anymore unless you are serious about archiving data or unconvinc… ...

On Nov. 14, NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an instrument that launched with the Psyche spacecraft, which is currently more than 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) from Earth and ...

MIT spin-out is developing a microscope platform for label-free imaging of human blood cells as they flow through capillaries. Leuko, a startup company established by researchers at the Massachusetts ...