Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) in Jena, Germany, together with international ...

West Georgia Technical College – in partnership with Elevate Douglas, Amazon Web Services and Sumitomo Electric Lightwave – ...

Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains “Distributed acoustic sensing” looks for disturbances in fiber to detect earthquakes and even insects.

Image diagram of 19-core optical fiber. Presented as the top-rated post-deadline paper at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, this work arrives as global data traffic is projected to triple by 2030.

According to Mr. Hecht’s 1999 history of fiber optics, “City of Light,” between 1955, when Dr. Kapany received his doctorate, and 1965, he was the lead author or co-author of 56 scientific ...