Scottish start-up and Fraunhofer UK prove real-world practicality of PCSEL technology, enabling secure, long distance, ...

The new system, known as the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications system, or O2O, will allow astronauts aboard Orion to ...

NASA says its Artemis II mission will carry a laser communications terminal built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory aboard the Orion ...

Vector Photonics, a start-up, has carried out what it says is the first public demonstration of PCSEL technology.

CACI International Inc ( NYSE: CACI) announced today it has successfully enabled advanced optical communications and sensing technologies for NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of the ...

A new publication from OET DOI 10.29026/oet.2026.260004, discusses advances and perspectives on high-speed and ...

This Collection invites submissions of original research into methods that support the deployment of optical communication systems, driving advancements in high-speed data transmission and network ...

Attached to the Orion spacecraft is a key piece of technology developed over decades in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Vector Photonics, a start-up based near Glasgow, UK, pioneering the use of photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (PCSEL) ...

NASA is building optical communications technologies into its networks, using infrared laser links to offer missions higher data rates than comparable radio frequency systems. NASA’s Low-Cost Optical ...

The rapid growth of satellite constellations has placed unprecedented pressure on the infrastructure connecting spacecraft to Earth. In a recent interview, Laurynas Mačiulis, Chief Executive Officer ...

Optical fibre communication systems have revolutionised global telecommunications by harnessing light‐based signal transmission through highly engineered glass or plastic fibres. The principle of ...