First Demonstration of Hollow-Core-Fiber Cable for Low Latency Data Transmission
Benyuan Zhu, B. J. Mangan, Tristan Kremp, G. Puc, V. Mikhailov, Kyle Dube, Y. Dulashko, Marc Montoliu Cortés, Yudong Lian, Kenneth L. Marceau, B. Violette, D. Cartsounis, Ralph J. Lago, B. Savran, Daryl Inniss, D. J. DiGiovanni
Abstract
We present the first field-deployable hollow-core-fiber (HCF) cable and successfirlly demonstrate an error-free transmission of direct-detection 10Gb/s DWDM signals over a 3.1km cascaded HCF cable link, enabling 31% latency reduction compared to solid-corefiber cable.
Topics & Concepts
Optical fiber cableWavelength-division multiplexingComputer scienceTransmission (telecommunications)Latency (audio)Data transmissionOptical fiberCore (optical fiber)Fiber-optic communicationElectronic engineeringMulti-mode optical fiberMaterials sciencePlastic optical fiberEngineeringTelecommunicationsOptoelectronicsComputer networkWavelengthOptical Network TechnologiesAdvanced Photonic Communication SystemsSemiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices