Business Wire

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave’s FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber Awarded Qualified Product Listing (QPL) for Military and Navy Shipboard Contracts

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, a leader in fiber optic product manufacturing and related products, announced today that its FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber ...
ZDNet

Quantum cryptography: This air-filled fiber optic cable can transport un-hackable keys, say researchers

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 ...
ExtremeTech

US military's 'air optical fiber' increases the power of laser weapons, networks, science

Researchers in the US, funded by the US Air Force, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the National Science Foundation, have managed to turn air into an "optical fiber." This breakthrough ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

The Ins and Outs of Optical Fiber Cable Installation

Several factors are driving the popularity of optical fiber cabling. Chief among those is the growth of high-tech applications that require the massive bandwidth fiber-optic cabling makes possible.
SDxCentral

Fiber researchers break data loss barrier in breakthrough optical tests

Researchers from the University of Southampton in the U.K. have teamed up with fiber engineers from Microsoft Azure to reduce attenuation in optical cables, where weakened signal power leads to data ...