Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

Optical fiber quietly powers much of the modern world. It carries internet traffic across oceans and cities with astonishing ...

- The breakthrough leverages international-standard-compliant, cutoff-shifted optical fibers with a novel approach that triples the capacity of certain spectral regions using spatial-division ...

Researchers have shown how ultrastable optical signals from optical clocks can be transmitted across tens of kilometers of deployed multicore fiber carrying telecommunications data. Nazanin Hoghooghi, ...

Researchers have harnessed the light-guiding properties of spider silk to develop a sensor that can be used to determine concentrations of fructose, sucrose and glucose sugars based on changes in a ...

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to ...