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 ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Instruments/Machines for Optical Splice Preparation Market Forecast" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. According to the report, the ...

AFL, an industry-leading manufacturer of fiber optic cables, connectivity, equipment and related services, announces the launch of the Fujikura 100S Fusion Splicer and CT60 Fiber Cleaver. These ...

The use of communicating via light undoubtedly goes back many centuries. The Chinese and Native Americans were the first to use smoke signals for long distance communications, a type of optical ...

New multicore optical fibers have many times the signal-carrying capacity of traditional single-core fibers, but their use in telecommunications has been restricted because of the challenge in ...

There are two different ways to join two optical fibers: fiber splice or fiber optical connector. Fiber splices are permanent joints, while fiber optical connectors allow the two fibers to be ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AFL, an industry-leading manufacturer of fiber optic cable, connectivity, accessories and equipment, today announced the launch of the Apex® X-1. As the most ...

MORGANVILLE, NJ--(Marketwired - May 7, 2013) - Vytran, a leading supplier of innovative optical fiber splicing and processing solutions, introduces the "LFS-4100," a new precision optical fiber ...

The new splicing method overcomes traditional barriers to splicing these fibers caused by the difference in their physical properties, including differences in thermal expansion coefficients and the ...

In what could be a major telecommunications breakthrough, an engineer has developed a method for splicing together multicore optical fibers (MCFs) that could take the time consuming practice out of ...