In a previous Broadcast Engineering article (“Understanding blocking capacitor effects,” August 2011), I mentioned that one of the first tasks in my broadcast engineer career was to work on optical-to ...

Measuring attenuation in a fiber-optic cable is a vital ingredient to obtaining the maximum performance from a system designs. But, for designers, just starting to work in the fiber-optic design space ...

Solving the "last mile" problem is a goal both the telecommunication and cable industries have pursued for years without discovering a single, easily implementable solution. Now, researchers at the ...

Imagine a world without internet, email, streaming services or social media. Imagine having to write letters or call everyone ...

Alan Martin, Engineer Extraordinaire, once told me, “You never regret adding isolation between your circuits.” While he was speaking in the context of power supplies, the same goes for isolating ...

Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fiber infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new project using plastic fiber and ...

The knock on plastic fiber optic cables is that they aren't tough enough for industrial use. But the more rugged glass fiber cables are usually more expensive and, unlike plastic, can't be bent enough ...