News & Comment

The launch of the first space-based source of entangled photons and other ambitious plans are driving satellite-based quantum communications and fundamental physics tests in space.

Starting a company may not be easy, but growing it into a mid-sized entity is where the challenge really lies.

John Love, co-author of the famous book Optical Waveguide Theory, passed away on 19 June 2016. The Australian optics community has lost a founding pillar.

Following the UK's decision to leave the European Union, we asked scientists and industrialists working in the optics sector for their reaction to the news and how it may affect photonics research in the UK.

The origins of optical fibre communications lie with a paper published 50 years ago.

The merger of biology and optics was the focus of new sessions at SPIE Photonics West 2016. The conference attracted over 20,000 attendees.

The 2016 Rank Prize for optoelectronics has been awarded to the inventors of the arrayed waveguide grating. Lord Rank's philanthropy deserves greater recognition.

Australians call it sticky tape, English name it Sellotape, and some say Scotch tape. Whatever you call it, it is arguably responsible for the theme of this month's focus issue.

ORCID, a global ID scheme for researchers, which is being embraced by funders, universities and publishers, now has almost 2 million registrations and is growing all the time.

Designed with a laser metrology system, LISA Pathfinder is on track to demonstrate the first in-flight test of low-frequency gravitational wave detection metrology in space.