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OFS Hollow-Core Optical Fibers
Game-changing advances with PRISM
Conventional Hollow-Core Optical Fibers
Advanced PRISM Optical Fibers
Advantages of Hollow-Core Optical Fiber:
Ultra-low nonlinearity
Low-latency
Access to materials in holes etc.
Usability of fibers has been greatly improved:
Loss: ~ 10xStandard SMF
Complex fabrication: Manufacturability uncertain
Long lengths, manufacturing under development
No modal control (at low-loss)
Single-moded operation
Poor polarization (at low loss): high PMD, no PM
Polarization control with high extinction
No standard splicing or connectors
Connectorized jumpers available
PRISM – using the Perturbed Resonance for Improved Single Modedness effect. OFS adds low loss, single-mode operation, and polarization
maintaining capabilities to hollow-core fibers.