ARTICLES BY EMILY NEWTON

• Automotive LiDAR Revolution Rooted In Photonics

  5/2/2025

  Photonics improves LiDAR by unlocking new levels of reliability and scalability for automotive technologies. In the early days of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), mechanical spinning LiDAR sensors were the industry standard. Still, they came with major trade-offs in size, cost, and durability. Today, the automotive world is shifting toward solid-state, photonics-enabled systems.

• The Role Of Spectrum Management In Enhancing Rural Broadband Access

  2/3/2025

  Broadband connections are becoming inseparable from many everyday tasks. As its importance in education, business, and communication rises, access discrepancies between urban and rural areas grow increasingly worrisome. Spectrum management deserves more attention amid this trend.

• Master Machine Health With Advanced Sensors For Predictive Maintenance

  11/18/2024

  Predictive maintenance is the practice of predicting repair issues by monitoring real-time equipment data. It’s a sophisticated approach requiring advanced technology but a highly beneficial one.

• The Alarming Rise Of Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks

  11/6/2024

  Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have quickly become staples of the communications industry. While this technology has enabled many impressive gains, it also introduces unique risks. The threat of adversarial machine learning is one of the most significant.

• Automotive Sensors: Steering The Development Of Autonomous Vehicles

  10/21/2024

  Autonomous vehicles are some of the most exciting technological developments today. While there’s still a long way to go before fully self-driving cars are a reality, researchers are getting closer every day. Advances in automotive proximity sensors are the key driver of this progress.

• Cutting Edge Photonic Solutions Transform Data Center Operations

  9/30/2024

  Silicon photonics uses silicon as an optical medium. People involved in such applications are interested in making photonic integrated circuits (PIC) that could improve optical communication, high-speed data transfers, and more. How could these cutting-edge photonic solutions support the current and future needs of modern data centers?

• Why Do Super-Resolution Microscopy Advancements Leverage Piezo Technology?

  7/11/2024

  Super-resolution microscopy gives researchers a non-destructive way to observe molecular-level intracellular interactions. Although first proposed in the 1970s, this method has become more widely accessible and powerful over the past couple of decades. Technologies that use piezo in microscopy are among those that have furthered the progress. Although the piezoelectric effect generates electricity in response to mechanical pressure on a material, it also makes super-resolution microscopy more effective.

• How Graphene Is Changing Photonics

  5/23/2024

  Today’s technology moves quickly and the hype around it grows even faster. As such, it can be difficult to sort the buzzwords and fads from the innovations of actual substance. The widely touted applications of graphene are a great example.

• Green IT Strategies Set New Standards for Computing

  5/16/2024

  Mounting climate concerns affect virtually every industry. The tech sector is no exception, especially given the energy-reliant industry’s role in rising emissions and waste. Many organizations are looking to embrace green IT strategies amid this trend.

• Laser Technologies Fueling Breakthroughs In Photonic Integrated Circuits

  4/23/2024

  PICs are important for applications ranging from biomedicine to communications. Many people use or incorporate laser technologies to achieve innovations while working with PICs and their results could spur progress throughout numerous industries.

• 7 Unforgettable Ways IoT Is Reinventing Product Design

  3/21/2024

  The Internet of Things (IoT) has changed how the world operates on several fronts. One of the most impactful of these shifts for businesses is how the IoT and product design have influenced one another over the past few years.

  As the IoT has grown, so has its impact on product design methods and philosophies — even regarding non-IoT products. Here are seven ways this change has taken place.

• Unlocking The Potential Of Silicon Photonics For High-Speed Data Center Interconnects

  3/11/2024

  Many research teams and commercial companies are developing silicon photonics applications. Some of their work involves silicon photonics in data centers. What is silicon photonics, and how could it affect current and future high-speed data center interconnects?