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Fiber-optic technology revolutionized the telecommunications industry and may soon do the same for brain research. A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis in both the McKelvey ...

Researchers at Michigan Tech have mapped a noise-reducing magneto-optical response that occurs in fiber-optic communications, opening the door for new materials technologies. Optical signals produced ...

Damage to fiber optic lines operated by AT&T was to blame for the statewide outages, which lasted more than two hours on Thursday, officials said. By Alexandra E. Petri They’ve been a mainstay in ...

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OZ Optics Limited, a world leading supplier of fiber optic products for telecommunication, industrial and medical applications, now offers fiber collimator and focuser arrays. The arrays are ...

Before you get into the details of a design, you can use a general technique to locate places at which added test points or components can increase testability. First, draw a diagram that includes the ...

Many state-of-the-art technologies work at incredibly low temperatures. Superconducting microprocessors and quantum computers promise to revolutionize computation, but scientists need to keep them ...