Researchers at Michigan Tech have mapped a noise-reducing magneto-optical response that occurs in fiber-optic communications, opening the door for new materials technologies. Optical signals produced ...

Optical circuits use light instead of electricity, making them faster and more energy-efficient than electrical systems. Scientists have developed a first building block for photonic 'transistors' ...

Version 2015.06 of Synopsys’ RSoft product portfolio, the company's industry-leading family of software tools for photonic component and optical communication system design, facilitates faster, more ...

Combining the low-loss performance of optical fibers with large-scale integrated circuits, new work led by Caltech moves toward a new generation of ultralow-loss photonic integrated circuits.

Fiber-optic technology revolutionized the telecommunications industry and may soon do the same for brain research. A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis in both the McKelvey ...

Transistors, the tiny switches that flip on and off inside computer chips, have long been the domain of electricity. But scientists are beginning to develop chip components that run on light. Last ...

Practical and effective light delivery during behavioral modulation is a key challenge in applying optogenetics to understand and control neural function. Initial solutions to this problem have relied ...

The circuit shown in the figure measures relative humidity in air at the low temperatures found in applications like cold storage of food items and greenhouses. Instead of using electrical signal ...