Industrial automation has made high-quality, low-cost manufacturing and process control an everyday occurrence. Industrial automation systems have been constructed with many fieldbus systems, such as ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.220025 considers specialty optical fibers for advanced sensing applications. Optical fiber technology has changed the world in ...

Fiber-based networks make up the majority of the internet's backbone. Fiber-optic subsea cables spanning thousands of miles connect continents together, exchanging data at nearly the speed of light.

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

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2022.200078 overviews advances in distributed fiber optic vibration/acoustic sensing technology. Distributed fiber optic ...

One of the ironies of graphics processing units is that, despite their high cost and limited availability, the chips spend much of their time waiting to receive instructions. A big reason, say IBM ...

EBX is a revolutionary fiber optic technology utilizing expanded beam connectors to provide superior performance and reliability. Fiber optic interconnect solutions are particularly well-suited for ...

You can thank fiber optics for all these conveniences and more. And while you’re at it, wish the fiber a happy 60th birthday ...

Imagine downloading 10,000 4K movies in just a second. A team of Japanese researchers has achieved such a mind-blowing internet speed using a specially designed optical fiber that’s no thicker than ...

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