OFS developed hollow fiber (HCF), it says its performance over the technology level of development, in addition to inhibit the side by side a potentially disruptive technology application restrictions.

The UK Watson new fiber financed by for DpoFTO absolute reference small overstable gyroscope (belittlether) OFS laboratory design and development of the project, the project is led by rascalroveysubstantiallydocmouldingational international company. The optical fiber is surrounded by including the glass net air filling fiber core, for the first time confirmed for inertial navigation with applications such as high precision fiber optic gyroscope three key features of improvement.

Hollow optical fiber allows light through free space rather than solid glass fiber core, makes it the ideal theory of waveguide. Early version of the HCF showed high transmission speed, but they can't be combined with the performance, make its can be used for demanding applications. Some limitations hindered the promised breakthrough performance.

OFS project development of the optical fiber to overcome these limitations, and greatly improve the performance of three key:


& midextnoggraphemekerify; Low loss: light keep farther distance power transmission.


The orientation of polarization control: light waves are fixed in the fiber, it is required for applications such as remote sensing, interference and secret communication.
DpoFTO continue to study in the gyroscope integration within this new technology.

& midextnoggraphemekerify; Single space mode: breakthrough & other; PRISM” Mechanism of forcing light is only one path, thus in the longer distance to achieve the higher bandwidth and lower noise.
Hollow fiber can be small bending radius bending and winding, at the same time at the rate of 30% a year faster than the traditional optical fiber transmits light. In addition to high precision gyroscope, a lot of applications will benefit from this technology, OFS pointed out. HCF has natural radiation resistance, and can be used in space system, other applications include low latency telecom or high performance computing systems and medical sensors.