Cables also include fibers of Kevlar and/or steel wires for strength and an outer sheath of plastic or Teflon for protection. For glass fibers, there are two "optical windows" where the fiber is ...

But the key to this build is in the 16 pieces of side-glow plastic fiber optic tubing. Side-glow is designed to let light escape along the length of the tube as opposed to end-glow, which is made ...

Tamara Heideman's sewage line was destroyed by construction crews working to install a fiber network in her neighborhood. She ...

The Missouri-based company has begun construction of a network in the city that may reach as many 23,000 homes.

Scientists have developed a new approach to significantly enhance the spatial resolution of distributed temperature sensing using plastic optical ... is published in Optical Fiber Technology.

he located some cheap bulk fiber optic toy wands, and got busy cutting them apart to remove the fiber bundles. The fibers were glued into a laser cut plastic assembly, where they were paired with ...