{"id":217708,"date":"2025-07-12T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/next-generation-optical-fibers-with-10000-times-lower-backscatter"},"modified":"2025-07-12T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:03:30","slug":"next-generation-optical-fibers-with-10000-times-lower-backscatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/next-generation-optical-fibers-with-10000-times-lower-backscatter","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation Optical Fibers With 10,000 Times Lower Backscatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/next-generation-optical-fibers-with-10000-times-lower-backscatter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new instrument has enabled the first measurement of ultra-low backscatter in hollow-core fibers, validating their potential to outperform traditional fiber optics. Researchers from the University of Southampton and Universit\u00e9 Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back-refle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new instrument has enabled the first measurement of ultra-low backscatter in hollow-core fibers, validating their potential to outperform traditional fiber optics. Researchers from the University of Southampton and Universit\u00e9 Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back-refle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}