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 ...

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 ...

The amplifier developed by Chalmers researchers is compact, measuring just a few centimeters, yet it can process ten times larger amounts of data per second than current optical communication systems.