Fiber optic technology is the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, and recent innovations are propelling its capabilities to new heights. In the past few years, breakthroughs in materials, ...

Brainiac75] is a fan of fiber optic lamps, except for one thing—they’re often remarkably dim. Thus, they set out to hack the technology to deliver terrifying amounts of light while still ...

Last week, I focused on tubular skylights, which provide a great way to bring daylighting into home offices, hallways, bathrooms and other spaces. An aluminum tube that's highly reflective on the ...

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

Researchers have taken an important new step in advancing the performance of resonator fiber optic gyroscopes, a type of fiber optic sensor that senses rotation using only light. Because gyroscopes ...

Shipping in Jan. 2023, the Kit Includes Four Individual ColorSHIFT LED Light Engines, Each Illuminating 150 Strands of Fiber Optic Cable to Create a Beautiful Star-Scape in Otherwise Dark Wheel Wells ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton in England have produced optical fibers that can transfer data at 99.7% of the universe's speed limit: The speed of light. The researchers have used these ...

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 ...

Corning, a 175-year-old glassmaker known for supplying iPhone glass, is now at the center of the AI infrastructure boom with ...