Research project

Antiresonant Hollow Optical Fibres for a Quantum Leap in Data and Optical Power Transmission

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Professor Francesco Poletti
Research funder:

European Union
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Francesco Poletti

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

Hollow Core Optical Fibres: design and fabrication
Optical Communications: high capacity and low latency
Novel active and passive optical fibres

Connect with Francesco

Email: frap@orc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Hollow Core Fibre

We are world-leaders in Hollow Core Optical Fibre research. Our ground-breaking fibres guide light at vacuum speeds and unprecedented intensities, enabling advances in telecoms, manufacturing, and sensing.

Research outputs

Hollow-core fiber with stable propagation delay between −150°C and +60°C

Zitong Feng, Hesham Sakr, John R. Hayes, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Meng Ding, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2022, Optics Letters, 48(3), 763-766

DOI: 10.1364/OL.478183

Type: article

Optical time domain backscattering of antiresonant hollow core fibers

Radan Slavík, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Thomas D. Bradley, Austin Taranta, Matěj Komanec, Stanislav Zvánovec, Vincent Michaud-Belleau, Francesco Poletti & David J. Richardson, 2022, Optics Express

Type: article

Low loss and broadband low back-reflection interconnection between a hollow-core and standard single-mode fiber

Dmytro Suslov, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Daniel Dousek, Ailing Zhong, Stanislav Zvanovec, Thomas Bradley, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson, Matěj Komanec & Radan Slavík, 2022, Optics Express

Type: article

Polarization stable hollow core fiber interferometer with Faraday rotator mirrors

Radan Slavík, Daniel Dousek, Dmytro Suslov, Matej Komanec, Stanislav Zvanovec, Francesco Poletti & David J. Richardson, 2021, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 33(24), 1503-1506

DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2021.3129591

Type: article

Backscattering in antiresonant hollow-core fibers: over 40 dB lower than in standard optical fibers

Vincent Michaud-Belleau, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Thomas Bradley, John Richard Hayes, Yong Chen, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson, Jérôme Genest & Radan Slavík, 2021, Optica, 8(2), 216-219

DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.403087

Type: article