The following terms were defined with the assistance of Panduit Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wiring and network cabling products and Jeff Hecht, noted optical networking consultant and ...

As the list of companies commercializing continuous fiber 3D printing continues to grow, so does the spectrum of materials, processes, parts sizes, production volumes, applications and end markets. To ...

As the demand for bandwidth and high-speed transport grows, so does the use of fiber-optic based transport. One of the enabling technologies associated with optical transport are Fiber Bragg gratings ...

Most people know that light travels in a straight line unless something acts upon it to change its direction. The three most common methods of changing the direction of light are refraction, ...

A new device based on hollow-core photonic crystal fibre can detect hazardous micrometre-sized airborne pollutants. (Courtesy: Pixabay) Researchers in Germany have developed a novel laser and optical ...