Fiber Bragg Grating technology bests conventional dispersion compensation fiber in terms of attenuation and bandwidth in the new 40- and 100-Gbit/s optical networks. The pursuit of faster and more ...

A colorful display of plastic optical fibers Commercial optical fibers generally carry light that’s invisible to the eye. The colorful ones shown here transmit visible light, demonstrating how fiber ...

Lasers that transmit data on optical fibers do not produce monochromatic light. Instead, they provide a narrow spectrum that includes many wavelengths. The physical characteristics of optical fibers ...

Structured cabling specifications ensure you purchase and install the right product for every job. Most significant installations of structured cabling begin with written specifications for each ...

Silver halide crystals and fibres have garnered substantial interest owing to their exceptional optical properties, which render them indispensable for advanced photonic applications. Their ability to ...

An optical network is a communication system that uses light signals, instead of electronic ones, to send information between two or more points. The points could be computers in an office, large ...

Fiber-optic technology revolutionized the telecommunications industry and may soon do the same for brain research. A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis in both the McKelvey ...