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

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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

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
, 2023 , Optics Letters , 48 (3) , 763--766
DOI: 10.1364/OL.478183
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
The thermal phase sensitivity of both coated and uncoated standard and hollow core fibers down to cryogenic temperatures
Wenwu Zhu,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
Austin Taranta,
Yong Chen,
Thomas Bradley,
Marco Petrovich,
Francesco Poletti,
Mingshan Zhao,
David Richardson,
& Radan Slavík
, 2020 , IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology , 38 (8) , 2477--2484
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2960437
Type: article
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