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 ...

Back in the 90's part of my job called for terminating fiber optic cable into ST connectors. The process was to bake the connector, glue, and fiber in this little heater, then put it into a puck and ...

Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lay on the ocean floors, a crucial part of the global internet's backbone, and only rarely do ship anchors, undersea landslides or saboteurs disrupt ...