The use of fibre-optic drones in frontline areas is leaving debris in fields that can become traps for animals and birds and ...

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to fiber-optic cables that carry the internet across oceans. Stanford physicists ...

In this stage, the handmade stack (~20mm diameter) is heated and drawn down to ~3 mm diameter to form a preform. The preform is then pressurised, heated, drawn, and spun to produce the final twisted ...

Silicon-based technology brings fiber-like efficiency to a chip, showing strong potential for quantum computers, biomedical ...

This tech could let the infrastructure carrying your data save water, too.

Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light.

In a discovery that blurs the line between biology and technology, scientists have found that heart-shaped clams use fiber optic–like structures to channel sunlight through their shells in much the ...

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 ...

Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as ...

Single-photon emitters quantum mechanically connect quantum bits (or qubits) between nodes in quantum networks. They are typically made by embedding rare-earth elements in optical fibers at extremely ...