• Technical Conference:  30 March – 03 April 2025
  • Exhibition: 01 – 03 April 2025
  • Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA

Are we Ready for Hollow Core Fiber Networks?

Moscone Center

Hollow core optical fibers (HCFs) are maturing fast and now offer record low attenuation across all key transmission bands (including O,E,S,C,L and U), combined with ultimate low latency, unmatched radiation resistance and low non-linearity. In parallel, significant advances have been demonstrated in the development of low loss, robust HCF interconnections with key components, as well as progress in cabling and early investigations into the lifetime and reliability of these specialty fibers.

Therefore, industrial interest in HCFs is growing and these fibers are now beginning to be deployed in a range of applications. However, are we ready for this and what is missing? 

In this workshop we will explore the key opportunities and challenges in the practical deployment of HCF, including:

  • HCF performance metrics compared to conventional fibres
  • Leading and emerging applications
  • What is needed to realise a HCF network?
  • Lifetime, reliability and interconnections
  • Current fabrication limits and cost

Organizers

Natalie Wheeler (Lead), Univ. of Southampton, United Kingdom

Jose Antonio-Lopez, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, United States

Vladimir Gordienko, Aston Univ., United Kingdom

Hesham Sakr, Microsoft Corp., United Kingdom

Yi Sun, OFS Fitel LLC, United States

Speakers

Paolo Dainese, Corning, United States

Kerrianne Harringtone, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Brian Mangan, OFS, United States

Matěj Komanec, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic

Andrew Lord, BT, United Kingdom

Kazunori Mukasa, Furukawa, Japan

Maurice O'Sullivan, Ciena, Canada

Pierluigi Poggiolini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Yingying Wang, Linfiber and Jinan University, China

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