Silica Fibre Fabrication
Research themes and services
Explore the main application areas on which our research focuses, and the services we offer.
Research themes
Fibre for high-power lasers and amplifiers
- Large mode area (LMA) fibres
- Active dopants
- Double clad
- Low NA
- Photodarkening-free
- Active dopants – Ytterbium, Neodymium, Erbium, Erbium and Ytterbium, Thulium, Holmium
- Novel structures and glass compositions to improve thresholds for non-linear effects and mode instability, and laser efficiency
New laser/amplifier wavelengths
- Active dopants – Thulium, Holmium, Erbium, Neodymium, Ytterbium, Praseodymium, Samarium, Dysprosium, Gadolinium
- Bismuth doped fibres, covering a wide wavelength range
- Novel geometry fibres
- Fibre materials research and spectroscopy of doped fibres
Novel fibres for sensing, non-linear optics, Bragg gratings, and wide-band telecoms
- Highly non-linear fibres
- Poled silica fibres
- Photosensitive fibres
- Ultra-high and low linear birefringence
- Circular birefringence and Spun fibres
- Multi-core, few-moded and multi-element active and passive fibres
Services we offer
We offer a wide range of speciality optical fibres enabled by technology development and state-of-the-art fibre fabrication facilities.
These have a range of applications, including:
- high-power lasers and amplifiers
- sensing
- telecommunications
- scientific research