HC-ARFs are ideally suited for ultrafast laser beam delivery, precision spectroscopy, nonlinear optics experiments, medical laser delivery, advanced sensing systems, and specialized communications requiring high-power handling, low nonlinearities, and consistent beam quality. Specialty fibers have enabled a wide range of sensing applications. Particularly, with the recent advancement of anti-resonant effects, specialty fibers with hollow structures offer a unique sensing platform to achieve highly accurate and ultra-compact fiber optic sensors with large measurement. Lumentum's Hollow-Core Anti-Resonant Fibers (HC-ARFs) are engineered for high-power laser transmission featuring high threshold for non-linear effects, exceptional beam quality, and low dispersion. Designed for consistent fundamental-mode operation, HC-ARFs offer stable, high-quality beam. 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. 5 microseconds per kilometer, offering a 30 to 50 percent speed increase. Emerging applications—AI data centers, high-frequency trading (HFT) networks, coherent superchannels, quantum communication, high-power laser delivery, next-gen backbone networks—require transmission media beyond silica fiber incremental improvements. Nested Anti-Resonant Nodeless Hollow-Core Fiber. Hollow Core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fibre is a silica-based optical fiber that confines light in its air core using antiresonant reflection from nested, thin-walled capillaries. Their propagation losses were measured to be between 0.