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

Who is looking: Five Colleges Inc., the consortium comprising Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The colleges are located in rural ...

Fiber-optic technology revolutionized the telecommunications industry and may soon do the same for brain research. A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis in both the McKelvey ...

Several factors are driving the popularity of optical fiber cabling. Chief among those is the growth of high-tech applications that require the massive bandwidth fiber-optic cabling makes possible.

Switchgear comprises electrical disconnect switches, fuses and/or circuit breakers that control, protect and isolate electrical equipment in electrical power systems. A switchgear fault (phase loss, ...

Researchers at Michigan Tech have mapped a noise-reducing magneto-optical response that occurs in fiber-optic communications, opening the door for new materials technologies. Optical signals produced ...

So what will happen to a small drone mission when GPS is not reliable and the radio connection is a target? Another recent ...

A new transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into 140-gigahertz territory, unlocking data speeds that rival those of physical ...

Damage to fiber optic lines operated by AT&T was to blame for the statewide outages, which lasted more than two hours on Thursday, officials said. By Alexandra E. Petri They’ve been a mainstay in ...

Before you get into the details of a design, you can use a general technique to locate places at which added test points or components can increase testability. First, draw a diagram that includes the ...

T-Mobile blamed a bum fiber-optic circuit for Monday’s massive network outage that rankled customers and prompted a federal investigation. Neville Ray, the wireless carrier’s president of technology, ...

After fiber-optic cables under the Baltic Sea were cut last month, European officials hurried to stop the Yi Peng 3. It’s still at anchor there, with no update on three nations’ investigation. By ...