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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

Flexible mid-IR fiber bundle for thermal imaging of inaccessible areas
Andrea Ventura,
Fedia Ben Slimen,
Joris Lousteau,
Nicholas White,
Ali Masoudi,
Petr Janicek,
& Francesco Poletti
, 2019 , Optics Express , 27 (15) , 20259--20272
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.020259
Type: article
Demonstration of opposing thermal sensitivities in hollow core fibers with open and sealed ends
Radan Slavík,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
Michael Bukshtab,
Yong Chen,
Thomas Bradley,
Seyed Reza Sandoghchi,
Marco Petrovich,
Francesco Poletti,
& David Richardson
, 2019 , Optics Letters , 44 (17) , 4367--4370
DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.004367
Type: article
3D-printed polymer antiresonant waveguides for short-reach terahertz applications
L.D. Van Putten,
J. Gorecki,
E. Numkam Fokoua,
V. Apostolopoulos,
& F. Poletti
, 2018 , Applied Optics , 57 (14) , 3953--3958
DOI: 10.1364/AO.57.003953
Type: article
Lotus shaped negative curvature hollow core fibre with 10.5 dB/km at 1550 nm wavelength
M.B.S. Nawazuddin,
N.V. Wheeler,
J.R. Hayes,
T. Bradley,
S.R. Sandoghchi,
M.A. Gouveia,
G.T. Jasion,
D.J. Richardson,
& F. Poletti
, 2018
DOI: 10.1109/ECOC.2017.8346101
Type: conference
Nonlinear dynamic of picosecond pulse propagation in atmospheric air-filled hollow core fibers
Seyed mohammad Abokhamis Mousavi,
Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad,
Natalie V. Wheeler,
Peter Horak,
John Hayes,
Yong Chen,
Thomas D. Bradley,
Shaif Ul Alam,
Seyed Reza Sandoghchi,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
David J. Richardson,
& Francesco Poletti
, 2018 , Optics Express , 26 (7) , 8866--8882
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.008866
Type: article