Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to ...

Narinder Singh Kapany proved light could travel through bent glass fibres in 1954, creating fibre optics, yet was overlooked for the Nobel Prize that went to a scientist who built upon his work.

An optical fiber that uses the mathematical concept of topology to remain robust, thereby guaranteeing the high-speed transfer of information, has been created by physicists. Optical fibres are the ...

New research from Penn State and AGC Inc. in Japan reports that the silica glass used in fiber optic cables would be more efficient if they were manufactured under high pressure. Fiber optic cable ...

A new device based on hollow-core photonic crystal fibre can detect hazardous micrometre-sized airborne pollutants. (Courtesy: Pixabay) Researchers in Germany have developed a novel laser and optical ...

We hope you enjoyed this look back at the last 100 years of television in science. From the early days of physicists ...

Optical fibres are the backbone of our modern information networks. From long-range communication over the internet to high-speed information transfer within data centres and stock exchanges, optical ...