These fibers can achieve low attenuation and single-mode operation within the bandgap, but their guidance bandwidth is relatively narrow (often <50 nm), and performance degrades sharply outside this range. Hollow-core optical fibers (HCFs) have unique properties like low latency, negligible optical nonlinearity, wide low-loss spectrum, up to 2100 nm, the ability to carry high power, and potentially lower loss then solid-core single-mode fibers (SMFs). Winston Schoenfeld, vice president for research and innovation at the University of Central Florida. What is hollow core. By replacing the solid core with an air-filled channel, hollow-core fibers (HCFs) allow light to propagate at nearly its vacuum speed, reaching approximately 3×10 8 meters per second. This reduces latency to around 3.