If you’ve ever seen those cheap LED fiber optic wands at the dollar store, you’ve probably just thought of them as a simple novelty. However, as [Ancient] shows us, you can turn them into a ...

Once it’s up to snuff, the sheet is immersed in a nickel bath, and galvanized. From there, it can serve as the master for mass replication. The researchers claim that the machine can produce fiber ...

Since optical fiber has the characteristic that 'light reflects inside as it travels,' even the slightest misalignment is not permitted when connecting optical fibers. For this reason, a fusion ...