Optical fibers provide an excellent platform for transmitting light over long distances, manipulating it and enhancing ...

A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as ...

A team of Microsoft-backed researchers has unveiled a new type of hollow core optical fiber that promises unprecedented speed and lower latency for the internet. This breakthrough was published this ...

CHANDLER, Ariz., Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) has announced the industry's first all-in-one medium and long-range bidirectional testing and certification ...

What just happened? A Microsoft-backed research team has set a new benchmark for optical fiber performance, developing a hollow-core cable that posts the lowest optical loss ever recorded in the ...

Data travels across the cloud mainly as light via optical fibers made from solid glass. But that light—and thus that data—travels faster through air. “With hollow core fiber, the glass [has] an air ...

Hollow-core photonic crystal fibres (HC-PCFs) provide an exceptional platform for confining light within a low-index core, enabling strong light–matter interactions and precise dispersion engineering.

Viavi Solutions has launched an all-in-one solution for medium and long-range bidirectional testing and certification of hollow core fiber (HCF). The offering can perform the slightly more complex ...

A new type of optical fiber filled with nothing but thin air has been found to be particularly effective for carrying out quantum key distribution (QKD), a security protocol that is in principle ...

The UK's leading telecoms provider BT has been trialing a new type of optical fiber that could significantly boost the performance of future 5G networks. Called hollow core fiber, the technology ...

Proven platform implements proprietary HCF-specific algorithms for OTDR, dispersion testing and attenuation profiling Solution has been validated in trials with three leading hyperscalers The efficacy ...