COURSE OBJECTIVES: Fiber-optic communication is at the core of contemporary high-tech and will remain so in the future. When a student completes this course, he/she should be able to: Understand the ...

[Bill the “Engineer Guy” Hammack] is back with another lesson in the science behind the technology we know and love, but might not fully understand. This time around he discusses fiber optic cabling ...

A new light control system created at CU Boulder could increase the capacity for fiber optic technologies, enable thinner medical endoscopes and allow for stronger industrial lasers. Many current ...

Optical frequency combs—laser sources that emit evenly spaced colors of light—are foundational, ubiquitous tools for ...

For those of you that don't know who The Engineer Guy is, his name is Bill Hammack and he's made it his business to pull back the shroud of mystery from the world of science and engineering. He's done ...

Researchers in Israel have created a microscopic optical device that could simplify high-power laser ...

Integrating fiber-optic control and data transmission. The war in Ukraine has evolved into one of the most technologically dynamic conflicts in modern history – defined by the e ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated that fiber-optic cables buried in simulated lunar soil can ...

Commercialization has started for network switches based on co-packaged optics (CPO), which are capable of routing signals at terabits per second speeds, but manufacturing challenges remain regarding ...