Simi Valley is the first city in Ventura County to have a fiber optic network started to provide faster internet speed for all its 47,600 homes and businesses, the city says. SiFi Networks, based in ...

CU Boulder researchers have built high-performing optical microresonators, opening the door for new sensor technologies. At ...

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeeded for the first time in performing ...

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeed for the first time in performing optical ...

Three SpaceX Corp. alumni who helped the rocket company develop optical communications for its Starlink satellite Wi-Fi ...

The company that once made glass bulbs for Thomas Edison lost money on fiber-optic cables for nearly 20 years.

For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the tiny world. Microscopes use light to magnify cells, microbes, and nanomaterials—but light also behaves like a wave, and waves ...

The meteoric rise of cryo-electron microscopy from an obscure imaging technique to a powerhouse for determining biomolecular structures is transforming our understanding of biology. Our knowledge of ...