A snapshot of a Sumitomo Electric preform of a multicore fiber strand showing two cores for light propagation. This will be stretched from 2-3 m long and 20 cm wide to 1000s of kilometers long and 125 µm wide, about the diameter of a hair.
A snapshot of a Sumitomo Electric preform of a multicore fiber strand showing two cores for light propagation. This will be stretched from 2-3 m long and 20 cm wide to 1000s of kilometers long and 125 µm wide, about the diameter of a hair.