According to Astrolight, POLARIS is a “small, gimballed free space optical (FSO) communication solution for large naval ...

Lithuanian startup Astrolight has successfully demonstrated its Polaris laser comms technology during a NATO exercise ...

Lithuania's Polaris system beamed encrypted data between ships undetected, and the Royal Navy is now considering it.

NASA will soon demonstrate a laser-based communication system between ground facilities and the International Space Station (ISS). The technology will boost data transmission speeds by 10 to 100 times ...

Google's parent company, Alphabet, is still experimenting with hooking up remote towns to the Internet via frickin' laser beams. Today, Alphabet's moonshot "X Lab" shared an update on Project Taara, ...

The final piece to NASA's first two-way laser communication relay system will soon launch to the International Space Station (ISS). The ILLUMA-T terminal, which is about the size of a large chest, ...

Dec. 8—An Atlas V rocket assembled at the United Launch Alliance plant in Decatur launched successfully Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida carrying a NASA laser communication ...

In a significant advancement in space technology, SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation has established a robust and extensive inter-satellite laser communication system, revolutionizing global ...

The world of science fiction is obsessed with lasers, but real scientists are not too far behind with that tech in real life, deploying it everywhere from watching cellular reactions to attempting Sun ...

Veeco continues making inroads into the rapidly growing laser market for advanced optical transceivers, which enable fast communication between the advanced processors that run increasingly complex AI ...

When NASA's Psyche probe launches in October on its mission to a metal asteroid as much as 309 million miles (497 million km) from Earth, it will be carrying a new laser communications system that ...

German equipment supplier 4JET unveiled a new laser system for thin film scribing. Called TOPAZ P1/P2/P3, the new laser system can be equipped with a wide range of laser sources, including nanosecond, ...