Fiber Optics

Credit: Leah Murphy
Cross-section of a HCF fabricated by Leah Murphy at the University of Bath, U.K. while developing a model to explain how losses occur.
Hollow-core fiber offers tantalizing improvements in speed, capacity, and signal fidelity—and may become the backbone for 6G, quantum communications, and data-driven, AI-powered...
Sept. 2, 2025