In a new paper published in Light: Science & Application, a team of scientists, led by Professor Khaled Salama from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and co-workers have developed a reconfigurable simultaneous lightwave information and power transfer (SLIPT) system using a MIMO-based configuration that addresses the limitations of existing optical wireless communication (OWC) systems of photodiodes (PD), designed to decode information from multiple light beams simultaneously while also harvesting energy.