Fiber-optic networks zip billions of bits of information across the world every day, using light with a wavelength of 1,550 nanometers, which is well suited for snaking through kilometers of glassy ...

Silica optical fibers exhibit intrinsic features such as ultralow loss, a high damage threshold, and a small mode field, enabling the possibility of long-haul communications and sensing, and have ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed the first fiber laser that can produce femtosecond pulses in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Fiber lasers producing ultrashort, bright ...

Lightmatter, a Boston-based startup developing silicon photonics hardware aimed at AI and high-performance computing, has announced a 16-wavelength bidirectional Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing ...

Santa Clara, Calif., December 4, 2012 – Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has introduced a new range of fiber-pigtailed (FP) lasers into its well-established portfolio of FP products. The ...

Scientists in the UK say they’ve developed a way to beam internet speeds at 301,000 Gbps over a single, standard optical fiber. Researchers at Aston University did so by tapping new wavelength bands — ...

Quantum teleportation has finally stepped out of pristine laboratory loops and into the messy reality of live internet cables ...