Like Bell's photophone, the purpose of fiber optics is to convert a signal to light, move the light over distance, and then reconstruct the original signal from the light. The equipment used to do ...

Major fiber optic connector market participants include 3M, Amphenol, Ametek, AVX, Aptiv, Foxconn, Fischer Connectors, GTK, ...

Mineral crystals in heart cockles’ shells protect symbiotic algae from ultraviolet rays and could lead to innovations in internet infrastructure.

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

Electrostatic charge can interfere with light transmission, leading to signal degradation and, in severe cases, network ...

Fiber optic couplers are optical devices that connect three or more fiber ends, dividing one input between two or more outputs, or combining two or more inputs into one output. The device allows the ...

As in the Ukraine war, the IDF has also used fiber-optic guided drones but for different types of missions. Hamas and ...

A thin strand of glass designed for light transmission. A single hair-thin optical fiber is capable of transmitting trillions of bits per second. In addition to their huge transmission capacity ...

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

Modern high-speed internet uses light to quickly and reliably transmit large amounts of data through fiber-optic cables, but currently, light signals hit a bottleneck when data processing is ...

Lion1, which runs through the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany, has been severed. The telecommunications connection has ...