Newly developed hardware for making high-transmission optical fiber in zero gravity has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). Launched last week on board a Cygnus cargo ship carrying more ...

Samples of materials that have been made into fibers in the lab of MIT’s Yoel Fink. The initial material is made into a ‘preform,’ in the lower portion, which is then heated and drawn out like taffy ...

Monofilament, including drawn fiber, is extruded from molten polymer resin materials. These resins include very-long-chain polymer molecules. In the melt phase, these molecules are arranged in a ...

Silicon-core optical fibres that can be mass-manufactured using a conventional fibre-draw process unite optoelectronics and fibre-optics. Silicon-core optical fibres that can be mass-manufactured ...