Testing a New Model for Tiny Fiber Cores

Patricia Daukantas

An Australian team researching so-called “holey” optical fibers has discovered that light occupies much less space in the core than previously thought.

 

Scatterings imageShahraam Afshar of the Institute for Photonics and Advance Sensing at the University of Adelaide.

An Australian team researching so-called “holey” optical fibers—with a narrow core surrounded by a ring of hollow capillaries—has discovered that light occupies much less space in the core than previously thought.

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