Over the last few years, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been all over the map. 2006 saw a pair of observational cosmologists honored, while 2007 went to the people who discovered giant ...

Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today’s long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Kao, sometimes referred to as the ...

Canadian researchers achieve metropolitan-scale quantum teleportation, advancing the quantum internet for secure communications over existing fiber networks.

Scientists have turned a long-standing sci‑fi idea into working hardware, using pure light to move data wirelessly through ...

Why not take the same strands of light that already power the world’s fiber-optic cables and let them travel freely through ...

With an applied physics: optics degree, you’ll gain specialized expertise in optics, preparing you for diverse career opportunities in technology, research, and academia. Become who you’re meant to be ...

Engineering physicist Christine Tremblay talks to Joe McEntee about the joys of a career spent making fibre-optic networks cheaper, smarter and more resilient, opening the way for telecommunications ...

Engineering physics major Katie Wootten was named a Stephen Halley White Undergraduate Research Award recipient this semester, in recognition of her outstanding research project. The award is the ...

Konstantin Vodopyanov, a professor at the College of Sciences and CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, recently co-authored a study published in the journal Optica. This research examines ...