{"id":221367,"date":"2025-09-03T04:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/optical-fibre-to-revolutionise-long-distance-communication"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:29:26","slug":"optical-fibre-to-revolutionise-long-distance-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/optical-fibre-to-revolutionise-long-distance-communication","title":{"rendered":"Optical fibre to revolutionise long-distance communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optical-fibre-to-revolutionise-long-distance-communication.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK photonics researchers have developed a new kind of hollow-core optical fibre that can transmit light signals about 45% further than current telecom fibres before needing a boost.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists from Microsoft Azure Fiber and the University of Southampton have called this a \u201cbreakthrough result\u201d which paves the way for a potential revolution in optical communications.<\/p>\n<p>With further advancements, the new fibre could enable more energy-efficient <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/technology\/internet\/quantum-internet-transmitter-optical-fibre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">optical networks<\/a> with unprecedented data transmission capacities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK photonics researchers have developed a new kind of hollow-core optical fibre that can transmit light signals about 45% further than current telecom fibres before needing a boost. The scientists from Microsoft Azure Fiber and the University of Southampton have called this a \u201cbreakthrough result\u201d which paves the way for a potential revolution in optical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221367","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}