ECOC 2019: Breakthrough result for Hollow core fibres

ECOC 2019: Breakthrough result for Hollow core fibres

The University of Southampton’s world-leading Optoelectronic Research Centre (ORC), based in the Zepler Institute of Photonics and Nanoelectronics, has announced significant breakthroughs in hollow-core fibre (HCF) technology at ECOC2019 in Dublin this week.

Record breaking hollow core fibre presented at the European Conference of Optical Communications, September 2019.

The breakthrough presented this week unveils hollow core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fibre (NANF) with a loss of 0.65dB/km across the full C and L telecommunication bands. This has been backed up with a data transmission test, reporting the longest hollow-core fibre transmission on record, reaching 340km.

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