A researcher lowers a fibre-optic cable 1,500 metres into the borehole in or-der to record signals from inside the ice stream ...

When people think about fiber optic cables, it's usually about how they're used for telecommunications and accessing the ...

Fiber is also used to replace copper cable for LAN backbones. An optical fiber is constructed of a transparent core made of nearly pure silicon dioxide (SiO2), through which the light travels.

Optical TDR can also be used to locate fiber breaks, but since there are perhaps dozens of individual fibers inside a cable that would each have to be scanned, the fact that anything that would ...

I also learned that fiber-optic cable is very, very delicate ... can cause heat that melts the glass filaments. The glass ...

Power for the repeaters was applied to a copper conductor inside the optical cable assembly ... at least for amplifiers for land-based fiber optic cables. Things change appreciably for the ...

Inside DC12 and an adjoining DC15 building ... The connections are made by fiber-optic cables that run above the cages, all ...