A Lithuanian start-up has successfully tested the Polaris free-space laser terminal at sea together with the navy. It is said ...

Macquarie University researchers have demonstrated a technique to dramatically narrow the linewidth of a laser beam by a ...

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

To maintain the laser-link between satellites, the LRI uses the beam steering method: a Fast Steering Mirror (FSM) is actuated to correct for misalignment between the incoming and outgoing laser beams ...

The system combines several sensors that monitor all process steps during laser welding. An integrated AI quality control system checks the weld seams, for example, and OCT (optical coherence ...

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), local spin-off company Spaceoptix, and satellite communications specialist Tesat have been working on the ...

Starlink has a first-mover advantage, and currently boasts around 7,875 satellites and leads the market, but Kuiper is ...

A small satellite about the size of a shoebox has been launched into space to test exciting new quantum communication ...

Thales Alenia Space says that the French government has appointed the Franco-Italian joint venture to lead development of a laser communications system in GEO.

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Orion spacecraft orbiting the Moon while using laser communications technology through the ...