Twisting optical fiber creates a robust new pathway for light

Light powers everything from communications to sensing, yet even tiny imperfections can scatter it and weaken signals. To address this, a team led by the University of Bath—working with the University ...

OFC 2026 Show Floor Programs Deliver Essential Insights on Market Direction and Breakthrough Technologies

Data Center Summit (March 17): Dr. Yawei Yin, a researcher at Microsoft, will keynote the Data Center Summit, sharing his insights into the future of cloud and AI infrastructure. He will focus ...

Scientists Create Chip That Generates Brand-New Colors of Light, Cracking a Decades-Old Nonlinear Optics Challenge

By harnessing two natural timescales in resonator arrays, researchers created photonic chips that reliably produce multiple ...

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Hair-width LEDs could eventually replace lasers

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa ...