Development by University of Bath physicists should protect data communications, even when fiber is twisted or bent. Topological states: glass capillaries are formed into canes and then fiber. Click ...

Optical fibers have become the foundation of modern data transmission, used for everything from telecoms and internet services to governmental and space applications. This is because they’re capable ...

A newly developed fiber-optic microphone demonstrates how light-based sensing can overcome the limitations of conventional electronics in extreme environments.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Korea, Australia, Great Britain, and Germany, with the participation of Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT), has optimized an optical ...

Scientists from the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) and Solar Optics, a South Korean optics application material research company, have developed a new power generation system based on ...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

Researchers have fabricated a hair-thin microphone made entirely of silica fiber that can detect a large range of ultrasound frequencies beyond the reach of the human ear. Able to withstand ...

Dr. Shahrzad Zahertar (center) holds the developed miniaturized optical interrogator alongside a more traditional optical interrogator unit (foreground). Photo Credit: University of Southampton.

- The world's first successful petabit-class transmission over more than 1,000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber, achieving a transmission rate of 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of ...