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 ...

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

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

New research uses electric fields to manipulate metallic nanoparticles capable of producing vortices within the laser light.

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

Optical sensors are a technology that uses optical fibers and optical waveguides with low light loss to detect, process, and ...

A research group led by Professor Lilin Yi from the State Key Lab of Advanced Systems and Networks at Shanghai Jiao Tong ...

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

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

Dangerous dual expansion or infrastructure competition? How Deutsche Telekom and its competitors are wrestling with each ...

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