Fiber-optic services are becoming more popular, and networks are expanding to cover more areas for faster data transfer speeds. Fiber-optic data transfer differs from traditional methods like ...

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 ...

Given how quickly technology advances and becomes outdated, there’s a good reason to develop electronics from materials that will break down and biodegrade when discarded, instead of filling up ...

The Code requirements for optical fiber vary with the type of cable used Fiber optic cable has many advantages over competing technologies, including increased information capacity (by orders of ...

You know your business needs a fast, reliable system in order to keep up with the highly technological, ever-changing world of business. But the latest and greatest systems and programs are useless if ...

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

Scientists have been “eavesdropping” on whales in the Arctic using fiber-optic cables. In July, a group of scientists published a study that took a practical method usually used to monitor the cables ...

A proof-of-concept study found that the same tech that carries high-speed internet might help track notoriously noisy insects. By Laura Baisas Published Nov 30, 2023 10:00 AM EST Get the Popular ...

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables, already in place across California, can shake up the study of earthquakes. New research out of Caltech used a section of telecommunication fiber to sense and ...

Astound, Service Electric Cable TV, Comcast/Xfinity and Verizon Fios are expanding their fiber optic networks. What that ...