If you want to go high bandwidth, fiber optics is the way to go. From trans-oceanic cables to the yet-unseen ‘fiber to every home,’ fiber optics allows a lot more bandwidth than a copper cable. In low ...

Terrie Voigt is an amazingly talented glass and textile artist who knows her way around color -- especially bright, bold hues that, for many, evoke a feeling of happiness. And, her ability to combine ...

Special cells in the retina split light into different colors to enable sharp vision during the day without harming night vision. Those long and tubelike cells, called Müller cells, snake through the ...

Engineers have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into a typical compression bandage. As the bandage is stretched, the fibers change color. Using a color chart, a ...

A team of researchers from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division at Berkeley Lab, California, has developed a new technique for combining fiber lasers operating at different ...