Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and its partners are pleased to announce that the VERTIGO project has concluded with the successful demonstration of a ...

An international group of researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden have achieved dizzying data transmission speeds and are the ...

DE-CIX and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are researching innovative solutions to optimize communication with LEO ...

Researchers have used a single laser to transmit data at a 26 terabits per second over an optical fibre cable, a data-transmission breakthrough that promises to come in useful for cloud computing and ...

Lasers have been one of the essential technologies used in industries. It is realized that light outperforms radio in terms of speed and density. It has been used for communications whether in ...

In a recent presentation at a San Francisco conference on optics and photonics, researchers presented papers describing their successful tests of optical data transmission tools, which soon may ...

Researchers have announced they have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser, a significant step toward combining lasers and other key optical components with the existing ...

If you could only choose two things to love, it would probably be space and lasers, right? It's your lucky then, because NASA has announced that it will begin testing new communication and data ...

Chinese scientists have reportedly achieved a 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) data transmission from a geostationary satellite to Earth using just a 2-watt laser. The South China Morning Post (SCMP) ...

A new satellite featuring a laser communication terminal (LCT) is en route to its geostationary orbit, from where it is expected to double the capacity of the European Data Relay System (EDRS). Once ...

Forward-looking: The US space agency will soon send a new, experimental laser communication technology into space that is expected to show potential data transmission rates that are 10 to 100 times ...

Spin doctor: Markus Lindemann created the spin laser as part of his PhD work. (Courtesy: RUB/Kramer) A laser with a polarization that can be made to oscillate at over 200 GHz has been created by ...