Loss in hollow-core optical fibers: mechanisms, scaling rules, and limits

E Numkam Fokoua, S Abokhamis Mousavi… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Over the past few years, progress in hollow-core optical fiber technology has reduced the
attenuation of these fibers to levels comparable to those of all-solid silica-core single-mode …

Hollow-core conjoined-tube negative-curvature fibre with ultralow loss

S Gao, Y Wang, W Ding, D Jiang, S Gu, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Countering the optical network 'capacity crunch'calls for a radical development in optical
fibres that could simultaneously minimize nonlinearity penalties, chromatic dispersion and …

High-speed silicon modulators for the 2 μm wavelength band

W Cao, D Hagan, DJ Thomson, M Nedeljkovic… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The 2 μm wavelength band has become a promising candidate to be the next
communication window. We demonstrate high-speed modulators based on a 220 nm silicon …

Antiresonant hollow core fiber with an octave spanning bandwidth for short haul data communications

JR Hayes, SR Sandoghchi, TD Bradley… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report an effectively single mode tubular antiresonant hollow core fiber with minimum
loss of∼ 25 dB/km at∼ 1200 nm, and an extremely wide low-loss transmission window …

Hollow-core optical fibers for telecommunications and data transmission

K Borzycki, T Osuch - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hollow-core optical fibers (HCFs) have unique properties like low latency, negligible optical
nonlinearity, wide low-loss spectrum, up to 2100 nm, the ability to carry high power, and …

Hybrid fiber-optic sensor for seawater temperature and salinity simultaneous measurements

J Zhao, Y Zhao, L Cai - Journal of lightwave technology, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this letter, we propose a compact hybrid fiber-optic sensor for seawater temperature and
salinity simultaneous measurements. The device consists of a hollow-core fiber (HCF) …

High-speed optical fiber communication in China

J Yu, Y Wu - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, China has made great investments in studying photonics and
photocommunication with larger communication capacity, better performance, and lower …

Analytical formulation for the bend loss in single-ring hollow-core photonic crystal fibers

MH Frosz, P Roth, MC Günendi, PSJ Russell - Photonics Research, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Understanding bend loss in single-ring hollow-core photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) is
becoming of increasing importance as the fibers enter practical applications. While purely …

Fabrication of tubular anti-resonant hollow core fibers: modelling, draw dynamics and process optimization

GT Jasion, JR Hayes, NV Wheeler, Y Chen… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The fabrication of hollow core microstructured fibers is significantly more complex than solid
fibers due to the necessity to control the hollow microstructure with high precision during the …

Transmission of 61 C-band channels over record distance of hollow-core-fiber with L-band interferers

A Nespola, S Straullu, TD Bradley… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We report on two recirculating loop transmission experiments over a hollow-core fiber of the
Nested-Antiresonant Nodeless type (NANF). We transmitted 61 channels in C-band at 32 …