No longer a novelty lighting scheme for pools and fountains, modern fiber-based can serve a variety of applications. Once relegated to underwater environments, fiber optic (FO) lighting has made its ...

Why not take the same strands of light that already power the world’s fiber-optic cables and let them travel freely through ...

Researchers hailing from England's University of Southampton claim to have discovered a method for transferring data near the limits of our Universe -- 99.7 percent the speed of light. Their secret? A ...

Fiber-optic services are becoming more popular, and networks are expanding to cover more areas for faster data transfer speeds. Fiber-optic data transfer differs from traditional methods like ...

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine ...

The Code requirements for optical fiber vary with the type of cable used Fiber optic cable has many advantages over competing technologies, including increased information capacity (by orders of ...

An unsuspecting shellfish with an adorable-looking shell may contain the secrets of fast internet speed. This quirk of evolution marks the first time fiber-optic cable bundles have been spotted in a ...