According to the Optical Society of America, U.S. researchers have been able to create a practical optical fiber with a silicon core. As they were able to use the same commercial methods that are used ...

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, ...

CeramOptec Industries, Inc., a worldwide leader in the manufacture of specialty optical fibers, bundles and assemblies, offers non-circular core silica optical fibers for use in applications including ...

Silica optical fiber is well recognized as a decent nonlinear optical medium to carry out nonlinear optics due to the long-interaction length and high-power density in the fiber core. However, the ...

DARPA has succeeded in creating hollow-core photonic-bandgap optical fiber, which allows light to travel along its length at around 99.7% the speed of light, or a 30% improvement over conventional ...

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 ...

Fiber optic cables can transmit over a terabyte of information per second – but that doesn't mean there still isn't room for improvement. One of those improvements, which was officially announced ...

Researchers have successfully developed a novel optical fiber design allowing the generation of rainbow laser light in the molecular fingerprint electromagnetic region. This new optical fiber with a ...

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The company’s non-circular core silica optical fibers target applications in material processing and astronomy. Allegedly, their square fiber offers a more stable means of transmission than that of a ...