Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to fiber-optic cables that carry the internet across oceans. Stanford physicists ...

Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced by the European Space Agency to fill a missing link in current technology, helping to make future radar-observing and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have developed a chip smaller than a strawberry seed to boost space communications. The tiny signal amplifier is aimed ...

Researchers at Stanford have developed a compact optical amplifier that dramatically boosts light signals using very little power. By recycling energy inside a looping resonator, the device achieves ...

Optical amplifiers, devices that boost the power of light signals, are important engines of the modern information age 1: they enable long-distance communications that form the backbone of the ...

Close up of an optical amplifier chip, similar to the one detailed in this study, that is being developed in the lab of Stanford physicist Amir Safavi-Naeini. A red laser light shines from an optical ...

New research paper titled “Hybrid silicon photonics DBR laser based on flip-chip integration of GaSb amplifiers and µm-scale SOI waveguides” by researchers at Tampere University (Finland). “The ...