Researchers in the US, funded by the US Air Force, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the National Science Foundation, have managed to turn air into an "optical fiber." This breakthrough ...

The race for faster and more efficient data systems is reaching a critical point. With artificial intelligence driving an explosion in global data demand, even advanced fiber-optic networks are ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

Australian-US team says wavefront-shaping of input light lifts power threshold for SBS scattering by an order of magnitude. A narrowband laser beam shaped by a spatial light modulator excites many ...

Coherent’s next-generation meta-wire based WGP achieves a 50 dB extinction ratio and 98.5% efficiency with dual-sided AR ...

Scientists were able to use the data from a fiber optic cable and a sensitive measuring device to “image” the Mendocino ...

The Fiber Optical Homogenizer (Laser Beam Stabilizers) is an all-fiber passive component which can efficiently homogenize speckle pattern and reduce unwanted modal noise (striations, hot spots, and ...

A new photoacoustic imaging technology combines laser light and ultrasound to image biological tissue. By creating a new twist on fiber optic sensors, researchers in China have developed a smart, ...

A new technology in the fiber-optics market is striking the right note with investors and raising cash at a time when industry confidence is low and venture capital is hard to find. A number of ...

Lasers with a wavelength of two microns could move the boundaries of surgery and molecule detection. Researchers have managed to generate such lasers using a simple and inexpensive method. In recent ...