His idea was to build a ceiling lamp that didn’t bask the room with light, but rather one that reproduced the peaceful twinkle of the night sky. He covered a wooden table with dark fabric and ...

As this display shows, you can have two glass fibers carrying completely different wavelengths of light right next to each other without issue. We’ve featured some other great fiber optic hacks ...

Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas ...

Called a Cascaded-mode interferometer, it is a single waveguide on a silicon-on-insulator platform that can create multiple ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s ... To maintain this close bond, heart cockles have mastered the art of indoor gardening, directing light to their otherwise ...