DURHAM – Visible and infrared light can carry more data than radio waves, but has always been confined to a hard-wired, fiber-optic cable. Working with Facebook’s Connectivity Lab, a Duke research ...

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Forward-looking: Fiber optic cables are the backbone of modern internet-based communications, moving zettabytes of data per year from every corner of the digital world. Fiber optic technology must ...

SCRANTON – The city has partnered with Verizon to make fiber-optic, high-speed internet access available throughout the city, Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti announced Wednesday. She credited the Biden ...

Lightning-speed internet soon will be available to everyone in Pittbsurg when SiFi Networks LLC brings state-of-the-art fiber optics to the entire city. Under a “smart city” agreement the Pittsburg ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton in England have produced optical fibers that can transfer data at 99.7% of the universe's speed limit: The speed of light. The researchers have used these ...

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The coronavirus pandemic made dependable and affordable internet perhaps the most critical tool for people to work remotely and for students to participate in virtual classes at home. Workers have ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Putting a wrinkle in the all-optical market, startup TeraBurst Networks this week debuted an all-electronic switch that supposedly delivers the same speed improvements as ...

Fig. 1. (a) Schematic of the 1x2 optical switch element based on the Ln-Si3N4 hybrid waveguide. (b) Missalignment tolerance of the evanescent coupler in the Y direction. (c) Effective index of the ...