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 Advanced Fibre Applications We are dedicated to exploring advanced applications of cutting-edge optical fibres, with a special emphasis on hollow core fibres. These fibres are designed and fabricated by the Zepler Institute Microstructured Fibre group, while our group focuses on aspects of these newly-emerging fibres from the ‘user perspective’. 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