A thin strand of glass designed for light transmission ... According to KMI Corporation, specialists in fiber optic market research, by the end of 1990 there were approximately eight million ...

But fiber optic cables—strands of glass or plastic that allow for the transmission of light—can be used for another purpose: imaging the ground beneath our feet. MIT Department of Earth ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s ... of heart cockles to discover that their shells are designed with translucent areas consisting of hair-thin strands, ...

They achieved this breakneck speed by sending infrared light through tubular strands of glass — which is how fiber-optic broadband works generally. But they tapped into a spectral band that has ...

microlenses condense light to penetrate more deeply into the symbiont-rich tissue," the researchers wrote. The fiber-optic cables we use for the internet are made of thin strands of glass or ...