Optical fibers with different geometries and spectral operation from UV to MIR can be processed to create radial-firing fibers, fused couplers, lensed fibers, bundles, fiber caps, 3D resonators, bended fibers, connections of fiber-to-chip & fiber-to-GRIN. Optical fibers with different geometries and spectral operation from UV to MIR can be processed to create radial-firing fibers, fused couplers, lensed fibers, bundles, fiber caps, 3D resonators, bended fibers, connections of fiber-to-chip & fiber-to-GRIN. At Fraunhofer IZM, a wide variety of fiber optic components have been developed in order to cover the current demand in areas of Telecom, Datacom, Medicine and High-power Lasing. As with most new technologies, the engineering challenges associated with its assimilation into the. Optical interconnection networks for high-performance systems Large-scale high performance computing (HPC) systems in the form of supercompu-ters and warehouse scale data centers permeate nearly every corner of modern life from applications in scientific research, medical diagnostics, and national. Optical interconnect technology is the successor to conventional electrical interconnects. Particularly in telecommunications, it was an obvious and essential step from electrical to optical interconnects to cope with the ever-growing demand for higher bandwidths, transfer speeds, and the necessity. The current technology includes transmission of between optical units (typically modulated laser sender and receiver units) and fiber optic cables or flexible kapton fiber optic cables, which are all relatively familiar. At present many of the optical and digital devices may be mounted on opposite. Fiber cables are Regional Sales Manager able to carry a wide variety of signals and data with capabilities that copper cables cannot match. Fiber can be easily integrated with the existing copper cabling with the use of media converters, providing the flexibility to add new devices without.