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

All we have to do is get them working.

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

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

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

The future of transmitting massive amounts of data digitally may be here, thanks to new technology that uses a "hurricane" of ...

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

Modern high-speed internet uses light to quickly and reliably transmit large amounts of data through fiber-optic cables, but currently, light signals hit a bottleneck when data processing is ...

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 ...