A strand of glass thinner than a human hair just carried more than one million gigabits of data in a single second. Two ...

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have developed a light-driven technique that quickly amasses thousands of bacteria ...

Lightera partnered with Oki Electric Industry and Keio University on what was described as the world’s first demonstration of ...

Corning is opening three new advanced manufacturing plants in the U.S. dedicated entirely to optical technologies for Nvidia.

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.220025 considers specialty optical fibers for advanced sensing applications. Optical fiber technology has changed the world in ...

A team of international researchers say they’ve set a new world speed record for an industrial standard optical fiber that’s as thick as a human hair and contains a groundbreaking 19 cores. All of the ...

The facilities in North Carolina and Texas will expand Corning's U.S. optical manufacturing capacity 10-fold and create at least 3,000 jobs ...

Once a month or so, I have the privilege of sitting down with Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams to record the Hackaday Podcast. It’s a lot of fun spending a couple of hours geeking out together, and we ...

Hezbollah has introduced fiber-optic drones in its conflict with Israel. These drones, similar to those used in Ukraine, are small, hard to detect, and lethal.

A team led by Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, known as NICT, has transmitted 1.7 ...