The credentials of HCFwere examined by the industry, as the industry grapples to power the data-hungry AI future ...

Relativity Networks, the central Florida startup working to bring the advantages of hollow-core optical fiber (HCF) to data center networking, says it has raised a further $6.1 million in seed funding ...

DARPA has succeeded in creating hollow-core photonic-bandgap optic fiber, which allows light to travel along its length at around 99.7% the speed of light, or a 30% improvement over conventional ...

Optical fibers possessing a silicon core have tremendous potential for Raman and other nonlinear optical fiber devices, mid- and long-wave infrared sensing and power delivery, and terahertz guided ...

Japanese researchers achieve record-breaking 1.02 petabits per second internet speed using revolutionary 19-core optical ...

These results will be presented at a postdeadline paper *8 session (6:00 pm on March 24, 2016, PDT) of Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2016, March 20–24, 2016, Anaheim, California ...

image: Researchers have incorporated a new type of hollow core optical fiber known as a nodeless antiresonant fiber to boost the performance of resonator fiber optic gyroscopes. These gyroscopes ...

image: This image demonstrates the structure of the dual-core nanomechanical optical fiber. Inside the fiber, two cores are shown suspended from above and below.

An optical fiber is constructed of a transparent core made of nearly pure silicon dioxide (SiO2), through which the light travels. The core is surrounded by a cladding layer that reflects light ...