If you want to go high bandwidth, fiber optics is the way to go. From trans-oceanic cables to the yet-unseen ‘fiber to every home,’ fiber optics allows a lot more bandwidth than a copper cable. In low ...

Special cells in the retina split light into different colors to enable sharp vision during the day without harming night vision. Those long and tubelike cells, called Müller cells, snake through the ...

Opticalis, a new optoelectronics company led by former Agere Systems executives, has secured more than $4 million in venture capital and opened its headquarters at Stabler Center in Upper Saucon ...

Every child of the ’70s remembers the first mainstream application of fiber optics: Color-changing lamps that were as cheap as they were mesmerizing. Nowadays fiber has to handle more serious but just ...

A new fiber-optic sensor made from stretchy rubber rather than glass can be integrated into wearable electronics and measure movement. The sensors can also quantify the force of stretching, bending, ...