Fiber optic technology relies on transmitting light along thin, flexible fibers of glass or plastic. These fibers essentially ...

All we have to do is get them working.

The entire design here is very similar to how we use fiber optic cables to route light along their path. However, it also ...

The optical fiber system created at Southampton makes drones work better ... “It sends back real-time information using light ...

This advancement could advance data transmission capabilities in fields requiring light-based encoding, such as ...

One well-known threat to fiber optic performance is contamination—tiny particles or residues on fiber end faces that ...

Scientists discovered a way to encode more data into light by creating light vortices with quasicrystals. This method could ...

A device called an all-optical switch could instead use light to control other light signals without the need for electrical conversion, saving both time and energy in fiber-optic communication. A ...

Snell’s Law explains light refraction at material boundaries, a principle crucial to fiber optics, lens design, and advanced ...

Tiny "hurricanes of light" could revolutionize the transmission of information in a process described as "halfway between ...

The surge in interest regarding the next generation of optical fiber transmission has stimulated the development of digital ...