Weather forecasting has long been a crucial tool for modern society, shaping agriculture, energy management, climate science, ...

It’s been quite a year for laser communications in space. In October and November, NASA launched two pioneering demonstrations to test high-bandwidth optical communication links, and these tech demos ...

Real scientific efforts at universal communication have also involved mathematics and numbers. The covers of the Golden ...

The demand for ultra-high-speed, low-latency, and highly secure communication networks is driving research into extreme-band technologies, particularly in the terahertz (THz) and optical wireless ...

Communications using a light beam isn’t a new idea, even outside of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars” and other similar tales of fantasy. Scientist and science fiction writer Arthur Clarke forecasted ...

Figure 1: Schematic of a quantum key distribution system. The transmitter (Alice) and receiver (Bob) generate composable keys by transmitting quantum states over an insecure quantum channel, ...

Researchers recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical fibers. Researchers at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of ...

In the race to secure digital infrastructure against the looming threat of quantum computing, space has emerged as an indispensable theater. Satellites, once primarily vehicles for reconnaissance and ...