With Black Sabbath's final concert just days away, metal bands and musicians explain how the band influenced the course of their lives - and paved the way for a new generation of artists. "Sabbath ...

Talent is overrated in architecture and it means that other, more important qualities tend to be overlooked, writes Matthew Bovingdon-Downe.

We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of mode-selective photonic lanterns using double-clad fibers. Here, we exploited several custom-pulled double-clad fibers to achieve the ...

A comparison of the absorption loss performance of three types of metal-clad slab waveguides is made with the material and waveguide properties standardized. The basic three-layer configuration of the ...