Laser-sculpted bumps that guide light around obstacles could make fiber-optic communications faster and more reliable

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech) at 06 Oct, 15:20 UTC

University of Maryland (UMD) assistant professor Avik Dutt and research colleagues have demonstrated a new way to control light precisely by using microscopic structures created on the surface of hair-thin glass fibers.

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• T2Laser-sculpted bumps that guide light around obstacles could make fiber-optic communications faster and more reliablePhys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)06 Oct, 15:20