Japan has deployed a system that fires laser beams with 100 kilowatts of energy — powerful enough to disable small drones. It was installed on board a 6,200-ton (6.3 million kg) warship.

Cybrid Technologies announced the first mass delivery of optical conversion films for perovskite tandem solar modules, marking what it described as the world’s first commercial application of this ...

Founded in 2003, California-based eyewear retailer Zenni Optical offers more than 4,000 glasses and sunglasses designs, along with a range of lenses tailored to meet specialized needs. While some ...

The big picture: As artificial intelligence clusters grow to thousands of accelerators working in unison, the challenge of connecting GPUs with ever-higher bandwidth has become one of the most ...

In data centers, pluggable optical transceivers are critical for managing the massive flow of data required by AI, converting electrical signals into photons, slinging them between server racks, and ...

Major international cloud service providers have reportedly slowed data center expansion, raising concerns over a potential slowdown in demand for optical communications modules. However, industry ...

Broadcom Inc. today debuted two new chips, the Sian3 and Sian2M, that data center operators can use to power their optical networks. Optical networks are often used to link together the servers in ...

Tower Semiconductor and Innolight have announced an expanded collaboration focused on high-volume production of optical modules utilizing Tower's new Silicon Photonics (SiPho) technology. This ...

Linear pluggable optics (LPO) is garnering more attention as a way to quickly and efficiently move data in and out of server racks, but a lack of standards for connecting the optical modules is ...

Chip giant's first PIC products to provide customers with independent volume supply of two key components for optical modules. Chip maker STMicroelectronics (ST) has revealed details of a new ...