Alright cabling gurus, I've got a question for you: Can you mix single mode and multimode fibers in a single run?<P>I've always assumed the answer is 'no'. Yet this week, I was tracing runs and found ...

Optical fibers are fundamental components in modern science and technology due to their inherent advantages, providing an efficient and secure medium for applications such as internet communication ...

I intend to pull fiber cables through walls. They are thin and convenient, and they can be miles long without significant signal losses as opposed to twisted pair metallic conductor cables. The main ...

Schematic of the experimental setup: a spatial light modulator (SLM) generates tailored mode superposition. The MMF scrambles the field. A camera is used to capture the speckle patterns emerging from ...

Australian-US team says wavefront-shaping of input light lifts power threshold for SBS scattering by an order of magnitude. A narrowband laser beam shaped by a spatial light modulator excites many ...