Scientists have turned a long-standing sci‑fi idea into working hardware, using pure light to move data wirelessly through the air instead of relying on radio waves or copper traces. The result is a ...

In what it claims is a world first, and continuing the advances in optical technology that it has made throughout 2024, NTT has revealed it has demonstrated a stable spatial multiplexing signal ...

SAN DIEGO—A Silicon Valley startup plans to send an experiment in fiber-optics manufacturing to the International Space Station (ISS) next year in a bid to make to the first commercial products that ...

Free-space optical communications (FSOC), which use lasers for data transmission, are a promising approach for achieving high-speed links between aircraft, spacecraft, and ground stations. However, ...

Milan, 20 July 2023 - Using fibre optic sensors to monitor water networks against wastage: the international journal Sensors published the results of an experiment carried out at Politecnico di Milano ...

Last week, I introduced the Humboldt dark fiber DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing) experiment. This experiment which sends laser pulses along an unused (dark) strand of optic cable, is unusual in many ...

A group of researchers at the Network Research Institute of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, Japan), have succeeded in the world’s first large-capacity ...

An optical fiber about the thickness of a human hair can now carry the equivalent of more than 10 million fast home internet connections running at full capacity. An optical fibre about the thickness ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A team of UNR researchers is hoping a new experiment will allow them to create an early-warning earthquake detection system. The scientists and engineers began ...