The advent of information age is accompanied by the rapid growth of digital information, which is in urgent need for the development of huge storage space and security media. Optical storage ...

Royal Philips Electronics and Taiwan's BenQ Corp. today announced the establishment of an optical storage joint venture company, Philips BenQ Digital Storage (PBDS), aiming for a mid-term marketshare ...

The recent development in the utilization of flexible optical fiber sensors and the prospective application scenarios were then summarized, which encompass human activity monitoring and healthcare, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Light carries information in its wavelength, wavevector direction, polarization, and the way it bends through materials. Until now, optical data storage has typically used just ...

Optical-disk-based video recorders using DVD-rewritable formats have become available and video recorders using current optical-storage devices have been proposed based on formats like DVD+RW/+R, ...

A nanoscale optical device has been developed that allows independent control over the intensity and phase of light. By applying voltage, this innovative device can freely manipulate the phase and ...