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 ...

Instead of the solid glass cores that dominate today’s internet cables, researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a fiber that guides light through tiny air-filled channels. By ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At the OFC Conference, from March 30 to April 3, 2025, at San Francisco's Moscone Center, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (YOFC ...

Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Southampton create fibres that cut signal loss, boost bandwidth and promise ...

The UK's leading telecoms provider BT has been trialing a new type of optical fiber that could significantly boost the performance of future 5G networks. Called hollow core fiber, the technology ...

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 ...

Scientists at South Korea's National Research Council of Science & Technology have demonstrated a promising new battery architecture, and one that could lead to big improvements in capacity and charge ...