and light's as fast as anything gets in the universe— so what trickery is at play here? None! As it turns out, existing fiber optics is not good at being fiber optics while still being massively ...

[Garrett] over at MaceTech was approached by a friend who needed a light-up mohawk installed ... but finding the fiber optics that would make up the mohawk itself took a bit of time.

At a fundamental level, these faculty research basic physical processes of light, including cross-polarization rotation, adiabatic wavelength conversion, and four-wave mixing. They investigate ...