It’s fair to say that for most of us, using a fiber optic cable for digital audio or maybe networking will involve the use of an off-the-shelf termination. We snap the cable into the receptacle, and ...

It’s a rare person who can pick up a cheap laser pointer and not wield it like a lightsaber or a phaser, complete with sound effects. There’s just something about the “pew-pew” factor that makes ...

Commercialization has started for network switches based on co-packaged optics (CPO), which are capable of routing signals at terabits per second speeds, but manufacturing challenges remain regarding ...

Schäfter+Kirchhoff have launched a new fiber coupler series 60SMF. The couplers series 60SMF are high precision fiber couplers optimized for high coupling efficiency, high pointing stability and ...

A Ball Lens consists of a highly transparent spherical ball, usually made of solid glass (fused silica) or another optical material with index of refraction less than 2. Most ball lenses are made with ...

A new theoretical framework unifies excitation, emission, and collection in D-shaped fiber optic sensors, improving ...