Mineral crystals in heart cockles’ shells protect symbiotic algae from ultraviolet rays and could lead to innovations in internet infrastructure.

Cables also include fibers of Kevlar and/or steel wires for strength and an outer sheath of plastic or Teflon for protection. For glass fibers, there are two "optical windows" where the fiber is ...

Fiber optic technology relies on transmitting light along thin, flexible fibers of glass or plastic. These fibers essentially ...

The 850nm wavelengths are primarily used in plastic optical fiber (POF) and multimode optical fiber. Multimode fiber also is used to transmit 1300nm carrier signals, while single mode fiber uses even ...

A real fiber optic cable is made of glass which is incredibly pure to allow light to pass through over very long distances. The glass is then coated in two layers of plastic. The plastic gives the ...

Fiber optics are a great way to transfer huge quantity ... This LED is attached to a plastic tube filled with water. On the receiving end, another ATTiny85 reads the voltage level of a photodiode ...

But the key to this build is in the 16 pieces of side-glow plastic fiber optic tubing. Side-glow is designed to let light escape along the length of the tube as opposed to end-glow, which is made ...

Modern high-speed internet uses light to quickly and reliably transmit large amounts of data through fiber-optic cables, but currently, light signals hit a bottleneck when data processing is ...