A team from Sony, Hitachi and AIST shows that it will be possible to make green laser diodes with the high efficiencies needed for pico-projectors.

Advanced design should aid route to commercialization for OLED luminaires by doing away with need for power management circuitry.

As forecasts suggest that concentrated PV could become a gigawatt-scale market in five years, JDSU officially launches a proprietary high-efficiency cell.

Call from UK's Technology Strategy Board focuses on enabling technologies and includes numerous optical applications.

Mike Hatcher talks to the architects behind the photonics technologies that Intel believes will revolutionize computing.

Lithography; neurotechnology; microscopy: micro-pixellated LED arrays are useful for a huge range of photonic applications.

$5.7 million project will develop demonstrator units based on quantum cascade laser technology for infrared countermeasures.

Technology giant makes significant advance by integrating four DFB lasers based on the hybrid InP design first developed in 2006.

A 32 kW combination of six industrial sources is preferable to deployment of a chemical laser, says Raytheon.

Military contractors Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon win funding under the US Army’s Robust Electric Laser Initiative.

After InVisage Technologies unveiled the first quantum-dot based image sensor, CTO Ted Sargent tells us why he believes silicon's light-sensing days are numbered.

Defense contractor exceeds goals of initial phase; Phase II aims to scale output power from 1kW to 3kW.