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

Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today’s long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Kao, sometimes referred to as the ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

The field of nanophotonics, which describes the integration of nanotechnology with photonic devices, has promoted the research and development of fiber optic nanophotonic devices. Researchers have ...

A new fiber optic technology could enable high-speed internet access to travel further without requiring electricity-powered signal boosters. The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology announced ...

Canadian researchers achieve metropolitan-scale quantum teleportation, advancing the quantum internet for secure ...

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 ...

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