Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light.
Cladding light stripper (CLS) technology addresses a major challenge in scaling thulium fiber lasers beyond their long-standing 1 kW power limit. A new self-adapting CLS design distributes heat along ...
The use of lasers to route data streams through free air will find its place, but it's not likely to become a mainstream optical-networking technology. Free-space optics technology has been ...