UC Riverside researchers have unveiled a powerful new imaging technique that exposes how cutting-edge materials used in solar ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light ...

These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data through tiny beams of light, making it possible for us to be online. They run under oceans and across deserts.

Electro-optic cavities for in-situ measurement of cavity fields. Light: Science & Applications, 2025; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01685-x ...

Underpinning the shortage are rising prices of some of the critical components that go into fiber-optic technology, in which light is carried along flexible fibers with a glass core. There has ...

Nature’s first fiber optics could light the way to internet innovation Clams called heart cockles use fiber optic–like structures to channel sunlight to symbiotic algae ...