The hollowing-out of fiber optics just passed an important milestone: a research team tied to Microsoft and the University of Southampton has reported a hollow‑core optical fiber design that both lowers signal loss below the long‑standing practical floor for silica fiber and propagates light...
Microsoft and the University of Southampton have published what the teams describe as a watershed result in optical communications: a hollow‑core optical fiber with measured attenuation of 0.091 dB/km at 1,550 nm, a performance level that — if reproduced in production volumes and field...
