The blank rod (suspended at the left) looks more like a huge stick of chalk than a pristine chunk of glass. The soot has ... Because a fiber-optic cable contains dozens or even thousands of ...

In this building, I hoped, someone would be able to explain to me the magic of how fiber-optic cables are made ... with guiding light through bent glass rods to illuminate body parts during ...

Photonic crystal fiber is named after the periodic arrays of air holes and silica glass these ... forms of either fiber-optic confocal or two-photon imaging, one-photon endoscopy and ...

Japanese researchers hit 106Gbps per core with plastic fiber breakthrough Multicore plastic ... rate drops 100,000-fold versus traditional glass-based systems A team of researchers at Keio ...

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data ...

One of those improvements, which was officially announced today, involves replacing the silica glass core of fiber optic strands with semiconductive zinc selenide. This new class of fiber optics ...

Fiber-optic technology uses small, flexible strands of glass to transmit the information as light. The strands are wrapped in a bundle and protected with layers of plastic, making fiber faster ...