In Sept, 2025, Microsoft Azure announced it is scaling its hollow core fiber (HCF) production by outsourcing manufacturing to ...

The solution brings to offer testing capabilities tailored to the unique optical and physical properties of hollow core fiber ...

In a world where milliseconds matter and data volumes are exploding, the networks that connect our digital lives are quietly approaching a breaking point. Every time we stream a movie, query an AI ...

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 ...

- An optical fiber with 19 cores within a standard cladding diameter was developed, enabling a transmission capacity of 1.7 petabits per second. - Randomly coupled multi-core fibers require less power ...

The Azure team’s breakthrough, tested over 1,200 km of fiber, cuts transmission loss to below 0.1 dB/km and expands bandwidth, promising faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient data networks.

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 ...

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 ...

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (TOKYO:5802)(ISIN:JP3407400005) has developed a new-type coupled multi-core optical fiber suitable for ultra-long-haul transmission, ...