Caltech’s new fiber-like photonic chips achieve record-low visible-light loss, enabling more coherent lasers and next-generation quantum and sensing technologies.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Cisco Systems and startup Qunnect said on Wednesday that they have built and operated a ...

Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today’s long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Kao, sometimes referred to as the ...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

A new fiber optic technology could enable high-speed internet access to travel further without requiring electricity-powered signal boosters. The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology announced ...

The field of nanophotonics, which describes the integration of nanotechnology with photonic devices, has promoted the research and development of fiber optic nanophotonic devices. Researchers have ...

The same fiber optic networks that provide internet can simultaneously act as earthquake sensors, as demonstrated in a new study. In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the ...

A new method to improve semiconductor fiber optics may lead to a material structure that might one day revolutionize the global transmission of data, according to an interdisciplinary team of ...

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SUMMARY: The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is driving an enormous build-out of data centers, with total investment expected to reach unprecedented levels. While major AI companies ...