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Researchers develop SNAP microresonators to speed up optical communications

Researchers from the University of Maryland and the Army Research Laboratory have built microscopic structures on ultrathin glass fibres that steer light with low loss, a platform they say could support faster and more robust optical communications and sensing networks.

SNAP optics could speed up optical communications
Researchers develop SNAP microresonators to speed up optical communications
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Researchers from the University of Maryland and the Army Research Laboratory have built microscopic structures on ultrathin glass fibres that steer light with low loss, a platform they say could support faster and more robust optical communications and sensing networks.