License agreement between Max Planck Innovation and Photoswitch Biosciences to identify new drugs to treat blindness.

Japanese firm says its laser-driven plasma source now delivers 100W with 5% efficiency and good stability.

VLT Interferometer captures raging winds in famous massive stellar system, using Doppler Effect.

MIT and Harvard develop stretchy implantable fibers to deliver therapeutic pulses of light within tissues.

JILA team has now built the super-radiant design based on strontium atoms that it first proposed four years ago.

University of Leicester says new technique can reduce the need for animal testing in biomedical research.

LED maker Osram develops chips with 1024 individually controllable light points in research project involving car maker Daimler.

Ten percent increase of output power of pump modules for material processing applications.

Laser technology set to feature at Extreme Light Infrastructure attosecond pulse facility in Hungary.

European project is working on a light source and instrumental platforms for low-cost optical devices.

László Veisz and colleagues move cutting-edge system from Max Planck Institute in Garching to Umeå University.

European research team believes that devices based on the two thin-film materials could operate at 25% efficiency with further refinements.