{"id":189443,"date":"2024-05-15T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-thousand-times-smaller-than-a-grain-of-sand-glass-sensors-3d-printed-on-optical-fiber"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:25:38","slug":"a-thousand-times-smaller-than-a-grain-of-sand-glass-sensors-3d-printed-on-optical-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-thousand-times-smaller-than-a-grain-of-sand-glass-sensors-3d-printed-on-optical-fiber","title":{"rendered":"A thousand times smaller than a grain of sand\u2014glass sensors 3D-printed on optical fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-thousand-times-smaller-than-a-grain-of-sand-glass-sensors-3d-printed-on-optical-fiber2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a first for communications, researchers in Sweden 3D printed silica glass micro-optics on the tips of optic fibers\u2014surfaces as small as the cross section of a human hair. The advance could enable faster internet and improved connectivity, as well as innovations like smaller sensors and imaging systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first for communications, researchers in Sweden 3D printed silica glass micro-optics on the tips of optic fibers\u2014surfaces as small as the cross section of a human hair. The advance could enable faster internet and improved connectivity, as well as innovations like smaller sensors and imaging systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}