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

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

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 NANF with 0.28 dB/km attenuation in the C and L bands
Gregory Jasion,
Thomas Bradley,
Kerrianne Harrington,
Hesham Sakr,
Yong Chen,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
Ian Davidson,
Austin Taranta,
John Hayes,
David J. Richardson,
& Francesco Poletti
, 2020
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2020.Th4B.4
Type: conference
Compact micro-optic based components for hollow core fibers
Yongmin Jung,
Hyuntai Kim,
Yong Chen,
Thomas Bradley,
Ian Davidson,
John Richard Hayes,
Gregory Jasion,
Hesham Sakr,
Shuichiro Rikimi,
Francesco Poletti,
& David Richardson
, 2020 , Optics Express , 28 (2) , 1518--1525
DOI: 10.1364/OE.28.001518
Type: article
Multi-band direct-detection transmission over an ultrawide bandwidth hollow-core NANF
Yang Hong,
Hesham Sakr,
Natsupa Taengnoi,
Kyle Bottrill,
Thomas Bradley,
John Richard Hayes,
Gregory Jasion,
Hyuntai Kim,
Naresh Kumar Thipparapu,
Yu Wang,
Andrey A. Umnikov,
Jayanta Sahu,
Francesco Poletti,
Periklis Petropoulos,
& David Richardson
, 2020 , IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology , 38 (10) , 2848--2856
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.2967581
Type: article
Extruded tellurite antiresonant hollow core fiber for mid-IR operation
Andrea Ventura,
Juliano Hayashi,
Jaroslaw Cimek,
Gregory Jasion,
Petr Janicek,
Fedia Ben Slimen,
Nicholas White,
Qiang Fu,
Lin Xu,
Hesham Sakr,
Natalie Wheeler,
David Richardson,
& Francesco Poletti
, 2020 , Optics Express , 28 (11) , 16542--16553
DOI: 10.1364/OE.390517
Type: article
Dual O+C-band WDM transmission over 1-km hollow core NANF using an O-Band bismuth-doped fibre amplifier
Yang Hong,
Natsupa Taengnoi,
Kyle Bottrill,
Hesham Sakr,
Thomas Bradley,
John R. Hayes,
Gregory Jasion,
Yu Wang,
Naresh Kumar Thipparapu,
Andrey A Umnikov,
Jayanta Sahu,
Francesco Poletti,
Periklis Petropoulos,
& David Richardson
, 2020
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2019.0848
Type: conference