Fiber optic technology is the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, and recent innovations are propelling its capabilities to new heights. In the past few years, breakthroughs in materials, ...

A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum computing. A new generation of ...

Raman distributed optical fiber sensing has been demonstrated to be a mature and versatile scheme that presents great flexibility and effectivity for the distributed temperature measurement of a wide ...

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of Chinese scientists has reportedly developed a new fibre-optic gyroscope that is stable across a wide range of ...

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 ...

Schematic diagram and microscopic observation of an optical fiber doped with rare-earth atoms. The fluorescence from the entire optical fiber can be seen. (b) Schematic diagram and microscopic ...

Narinder Singh Kapany proved light could travel through bent glass fibres in 1954, creating fibre optics, yet was overlooked for the Nobel Prize that went to a scientist who built upon his work.

Ritushka Negi and Mandeep Kaur Gill of Remfry & Sagar discuss patent filing trends in India and the progress of optical fibre technology Optical fibre technology has brought unparalleled progress in ...