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Simple System can Generate Quantum-Secure Cryptographic Keys at Sustained Rates

In a new study, researchers demonstrate an automated, easy-to-operate quantum key distribution system using the fiber network in the city of Padua, Italy.

12 Aug 2021

Highly Efficient Fibre Optic Channel Plates

Optical Surfaces Ltd reports how it is machining and polishing high precision Fibre Optic Channel Plates (FOCP) for an X-ray shielding application.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 29 Jul 2021

UC3M and UPV Patent Multicore Fiber Optic Monitoring System for Use in 5G Networks

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, together with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, has patented a multicore fibre optic monitoring system for future use in 5G networks.

23 Jun 2021

Light-Based Technique Could Revolutionize Medical Imaging Procedures

A group of physicists, headed by Dr. David Phillips from the University of Exeter, have introduced a new method to regulate light that has been scattered by passage via a single hair-thin strand of optical fiber.

21 Jun 2021

Light and Ultrasonic Waves Combination in Silicon Chips Enables Better Signal Processing

Light waves largely govern the sustained growth of cellular and wireless data traffic. Microwave photonics can be defined as the field of technology that is devoted to the processing and distribution of electrical data signals through optical ways.

20 May 2021

Fiber-Optic Cable Enables the Most Detailed Measurements of Ice Properties on Greenland Ice Sheet

Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ever taken on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

17 May 2021

New Technique to "Flip" the Optical Wavefront Prevents Distortions in Multimode Fibers

The use of multimode optical fibers to boost the information capacity of the Internet is severely hampered by distortions that occur during the transmission of images because of a phenomenon called modal crosstalk.

11 May 2021

Study Details Use of Fiber Optic Cable to Detect Minor Earthquakes in Antarctica

The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America saw scientists describing how fiber optic cable is being used to detect minor earthquakes that take place in ice in the Antarctica region.

26 Apr 2021

New Method Helps Create Colors on Metal that can be Changed, Erased, Rewritten

Scientists are slowly clearing the boundary between science and art by exhibiting how to use a laser to make artistic masterpieces such that they replicate classical brushes and paints.

20 Apr 2021

Researchers Demonstrate a Broadband Mid-Infrared Source for Remote Sensing

A research team of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences, National Institute for Fusion Science and Akita Prefectural University have successfully demonstrated a broadband mid-infrared (MIR) source with a simple configuration.

1 Apr 2021

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