BlazePhotonics Debuts Hollow Fiber

BATH, U.K. -- BlazePhotonics announces for sale the world’s first commercial hollow core photonic bandgap fiber. Because the light travels in air, hollow core photonic bandgap fibers have the potential to be the next generation ultra low loss, ultra low nonlinearity transmission fiber. In the immediate future they have various potential applications for power delivery, sensors and in nonlinear optics.These first hollow core photonic bandgap fibers are designed for applications at 800nm and 1065nm, with wide bandwidths (up to 120nm) and low loss (below 0.1dB/m). The fibers support a Gaussian-like fundamental mode.Light is confined in the hollow core by a photonic bandgap caused by the fibers’ microstructured cladding. This is a fundamentally different mechanism to traditional index-guiding doped fibers.BlazePhotonics’ CEO Simon Haslam said “Given the great interest in the technical advances we have made in our hollow core photonic bandgap fiber technology, we consider this the right time to make these first fibers available for sale. We believe the high quality of our fibers demonstrates our leading position in the field.”BlazePhotonics will be announcing further hollow core photonic bandgap fibers and a range of solid core PCF fiber products for sale in the near future. BlazePhotonics Ltd.