xLight, a US startup aiming to commercialize particle accelerator driven free electron lasers (FELs) for use in semiconductor production, says it has raised $40 million in a series B round of venture ...

A new fingerprint biometric liveness detection method based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) from India-based Mantra ...

“Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories, helping us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems,” ...

The Graduate School of Information Science (GSIS) at Tohoku University, together with the Physics and Informatics (PHI) Lab ...

Scientists have reimagined the meaning of a "light meal," creating microlasers that use natural products to emit illuminated ...

Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, low-mass stars.

Alphabet has announced a new development for Project Taara's technology that could lead to low-cost, high-speed internet connectivity, even in far-flung locations.

The phase-resolved imaging of confined light fields by homodyne detection is a cornerstone of metrology in nano-optics and photonics, but its application in electron microscopy has been limited so far ...

Scientists build a new light source for quantum communications by combining existing technologies together to create a stronger and more robust quantum signal.