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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tiny circuits can go the distance. Researchers have mapped a noise-reducing magneto-optical response that occurs in fiber-optic communications, opening the door for new materials technologies.

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.

Ultrafast spin laser could boost optical data transmission. Werner Hofmann of the Technical University of Berlin points out that the concept is neither new nor unexpected and emphasizes the need for ...

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 ...

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 ...