A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team is testing the use of hollow-core optical fibers to measure the profile ...

High Income Securities Fund offers an 11.3% yield but faces declining NAV and inconsistent earnings, warranting a continued hold rating. PCF's diversified 'fund of funds' approach provides broad ...

Fiber internet is quickly becoming the preferred choice for home connectivity in the United States. As households demand faster speeds and more reliable service, fiber networks are expanding across ...

Abstract: In this work, a surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based photonic crystal fiber (PCF) sensor employing Gallium-doped Zinc Oxide (GZO) and Titanium Dioxide (TiO₂) is proposed for refractive ...

Advisor: Viktor A. Podolskiy, Ph.D., Professor, Assistant Chair, and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Physics & Applied Physics at UMass Lowell Hugo Ribeiro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the ...

Slight temperature changes, imperceptible manufacturing imperfections, and heat generated by their own components can completely ruin an entire quantum quantum system-on-chip. Silicon photonics could ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works at room temperature, using a buried layer of glass-like material instead of ...

You may not have known that Google is also an internet service provider (ISP), but Google Fiber started in 2010 and has since expanded to 19 states. Google Fiber is a fiber-optic internet provider ...

Blink and you’ll miss it: A startup out of Finland is taking a new look at the market for prescription eyewear. Tapping into innovations in eye-tracking and liquid crystal lens technology, IXI is ...