Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as ...

Optical fibre communication systems have revolutionised global telecommunications by harnessing light‐based signal transmission through highly engineered glass or plastic fibres. The principle of ...

Fibre optic switches based on mechanical technology such as micro-mechanical that self-aligns a fibre directly to another fibre offer many application advantages. For the majority of applications ...

Researchers have successfully measured for the first time back-reflection in cutting-edge hollow-core fibers that is around 10,000 times lower than conventional optical fibers. Researchers from the ...

Fiber sensing scientists from Shenzhen University have developed an encrypted fiber optic tag that can be used for all-optical labeling and recognition of optical transmission channels such as access ...

Fibre optic switches for single mode and multimode fibres based on a micro-mechanical/micro-optical concept provide excellent performance parameters, high flexibility ...