Like optical fiber, light source technology has improved rapidly over the decades. These technological advances have greatly increased data transmission rates and reduced costs. Fiber optic ...

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

Laser optical sources are usually used to test single mode fiber and LED optical sources. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have relatively large emitting areas and as a result are not as good light ...

These particles disrupt the light transmission pathways ... Contaminants can enter fiber optics from various sources, ...

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

Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain ...

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

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

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

An optical fiber cable that has connectors installed ... otherwise lost after being inserted into a fiber either from a light source or another fiber. The combination of light waves in which ...

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 ...