Advancements in fiber cabling have been few and far between in recent years. The cables being laid at scale by the telecommunications industry today are pretty similar to those that were being fed ...

Despite the modern world relying heavily on digital optical communication, there has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer ...

Hollow-core fiber, as the name suggests, has air as its core transmission medium instead of the glass used in traditional fibers. This design significantly reduces signal transmission latency, which ...

COLOGNE, Germany, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --ANGACOM, Hall 8 F39 -- Furukawa Electric and Lightera continue to innovate and expand their fusion splicing offerings to support growth in new optical ...

Why it matters: Hollow core fibers (HCF) are not a new solution per se, but the innovative design conceived by UK-based startup Lumenisity brings this '90s tech to the next level. Microsoft will now ...

A Microsoft-backed research team from Lumenisity (a spinout of the University of Southampton Optoelectronics Research Center) has built a hollow-core cable with what it claims is the lowest signal ...