Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers developed a robotic optics laboratory. This system autonomously assembles ...

Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which ...

PI's P-606.1P piezoelectric micro-gripper provides compact, high-stiffness gripping for automated handling of micro-optics and fiber array units (FAUs) in photonics alignment, assembly, probing, and ...

The world's need for data is growing at a steady rate, with new applications emerging every week. Even at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, data consumption increased by more than 20%, ...

Commercialization has started for network switches based on co-packaged optics (CPO), which are capable of routing signals at terabits per second speeds, but manufacturing challenges remain regarding ...

Researchers have shown that 3D laser printing can be used to fabricate a high-quality, complex polymer optical device directly on the end of an optical fiber. This type of micro-optical device—which ...

Data centers are undergoing a dramatic transformation to reduce the power consumption of high-speed data transmissions by 70% or more with co-packaged optics. By moving optical transceivers from the ...