Fiber drones, an idea DARPA developed for its Close Combat Lethal Recon drone in the early 2000’s but never fielded, solve the radio reception problem. The drone pays out a fiber-optic ...

The preparation of fiber optic drones with Ukraine’s Azov Brigade in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on April 23, 2025. (Francis Farrell / The Kyiv Independent) ...

SAN ANTONIO — A woman hit in the head with a fiber optic line has passed away. Police say Glenda Huff Roth was working on her yard earlier this month, when a truck driving past her home hit the ...

These LN phase modulator and ASE light source module along with other new Data Center, Aerospace, and AI/Silicon photonics products will be shown in POINTek booth 2759 at the forthcoming OFC2025 ...

Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53110-x ...

Nature’s first fiber optics could light the way to internet innovation Clams called heart cockles use fiber optic–like structures to channel sunlight to symbiotic algae ...

Scientists have transmitted quantum and conventional internet data through the same fiber-optic channel, meaning a future quantum internet could theoretically use existing infrastructure.

Researchers from Aston University in the UK have successfully transmitted data across standard fiber optics at 301,000,000 megabits per second, shattering speeds included in broadband performance ...