Back in March, we noted that optical Thunderbolt 3 cables were starting to become available some four years after the standard's debut. Availability of these high-end optical cables has taken another ...

Optogenetics continues to be one of the easiest ways to directly and quickly manipulate the behavior of cells, and the lasers necessary to employ this method are often inexpensive and easy to find.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued and assigned a patent to EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering related to its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) test and measurement solutions. Entitled “Method ...

Electronics are often delicate things, eliciting gasping dread when knocked off a table by an elbow or falling into a beer glass from between clumsy fingers. That's why it's refreshing to see a ...

FS.COM supplies a variety of optical power meters from the current stocks, including FOPM-101, FOPM-102, FOPM-103 and FOPM-104 Series handheld optical power meters with configuration of fixed FC ...

The ubiquitous USB 3.0 connector is advancing to light-speed and longer-distance data transfers thanks to optical cables from Corning that started shipping on Tuesday. Corning’s first USB 3.Optical ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Many electricians have broadened their work model in recent years to include coaxial and Ethernet wiring for communications and data networks. This is usually seen as a good move, given the fact that ...

A research team from the University of Electro-Communications in Japan has invented a fiber optic system that transmits both data and power over the same cable. A research team from the University of ...

When you want to isolate communications between two devices or locations, a fiber optic link is one of the best ways to go. Under some circumstances, however, you might also want to isolate the ...

This is the type of crowd that’s famous for building their own test equipment. If you need a way to program a flash chip, don’t go out and buy one — you can just build one. Need a spectrum analyzer?