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But now, researchers from the University of Southampton and Microsoft claim to have made a breakthrough in HCF design in a recently published study in Nature Photonics. Still, scientists struggled to design HCFs that actually performed better than silica-based cables. Hollow core fiber (HCF) is rapidly transitioning from lab research into field trials and early operational deployments. Furthermore, several HCF manufacturers have emerged: UK-based Microsoft Azure Fiber and two Microsoft subcontractors, namely. However, recent advances have led to the emergence of antiresonant hollow-core optical fibers (AR-HCFs), which due to the novel fiber geometry, show remarkable optical guiding properties, which are not as limited by the material properties as olid-core fibers.

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