Medical sensors could get a boost from a new kind of optical fibre with a core of silicon rather than glass Glass optical fibre is replacing copper wire in data communications because it offers a way ...

A nodeless antiresonant fibre. (Courtesy: Gregory T Jasion, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton) A new type of hollow-core optical fibre makes light-based gyroscopes up to 500 ...

What just happened? A Microsoft-backed research team has set a new benchmark for optical fiber performance, developing a hollow-core cable that posts the lowest optical loss ever recorded in the ...

Three months after beginning trials of a potentially “revolutionary” optical fibre technology, BT claims to have achieved a milestone in the world’s first trial of quantum key distribution (QKD) over ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the University of Cambridge used 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, techniques to make electronic fibres, each 100 times thinner than a human hair, ...

From capturing your breath to guiding biological cell movements, 3D printing of tiny, transparent conducting fibers could be used to make devices which can 'smell, hear and touch' -- making it ...