The sheen of satin, the subtle glints of twill, the translucence of sheer silk: Fabric has long been difficult to render ...

An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

What just happened? A Microsoft-backed research team has set a new benchmark for optical fiber performance, developing a hollow-core cable that posts the lowest optical loss ever recorded in the ...

A team of Microsoft-backed researchers has unveiled a new type of hollow core optical fiber that promises unprecedented speed and lower latency for the internet. This breakthrough was published this ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled the Metafiber, a breakthrough device that allows ultra-precise, rapid, and compact control of light focus directly within an optical fiber. Unlike traditional ...

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Optical fiber, sometimes referred to as fiber optics, is a technology that uses pulses of light to convey data along a glass or plastic fiber. The amount of glass fiber that makes up a fiber optic ...

You may have seen some striking images coming out of Ukraine on social media where entire fields and city streets are covered in a dense tangle of glistening thread. This is the byproduct of a ...

Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and ...

I'm trying to use opticommpy's built-in SSFM function for the NLSE to generate data for an ML algorithm that will estimate the parameters of the NLSE. In order to do this, I need to label the data ...

School of Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland This perspective article delves into the current performance ...

Colorado Springs — Within days of each other in late February and early March, the Aerospace Corp. and Spire Global announced similar breakthroughs: demonstrating optical intersatellite links between ...