News articles tagged with 'fibre' (Page 14)
The leading edge: plastic fibre slashes network costs
— 10 Jan 2008 18:24 | PhysicsPlans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using…
Utra-fast fibre lasers, dopey photons... what is next?
— 2 Jan 2008 08:26 | PhysicsWhen lasers were developed in the 1960s, they were a solution looking for a problem to solve. Since then, they have become an essential tool in industries as diverse as nanotechnology…
Reversible way to transfer data from light to sound
— 13 Dec 2007 21:44 | PhysicsAs a step towards designing tomorrow's super-fast optical communications networks, a Duke University-led research team has demonstrated a way to transfer encoded information from a…
Light sheds on new fibre potential to change technology
— 10 Dec 2007 19:30 | PhysicsPhotonic crystal fibre's ability to create broad spectra of light, which will be the basis for important developments in technology, has been explained for the first time in an article…
A new way to manipulate light more efficiently
— 16 Nov 2007 17:09 | PhysicsA discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently than before is announced in the journal Science this week. Using a special hollow-core photonic crystal…