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Distributed Gas Sensing With Optical Microstructured Fibre

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Natalie Wheeler

Principal Research Fellow
Other researchers

Professor Radan Slavik

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

  • Fibre optics
  • Ultrastable fibre interferometers
  • High-accuracy measurement

Dr Martynas Beresna

Principal Research Fellow

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Fibres and Communications

We develop new fibre technologies and explore their applications in areas including communications, sensing, lasers, materials processing and imaging.

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.

Optical Fibre Sensors and Devices

Our group develops a variety of innovative optical fibre devices and sensors.

Gas Photonics in Hollow Core Fibres 

Hollow core fibres enable gas-light interactions over extended lengths, opening up diverse applications in high sensitivity gas sensing, novel wavelengths generation, and waveguide enhancement.

Research outputs

Interconnectivity between effectively single-moded antiresonant hollow core fibres and conventional single-mode fibres
Radan Slavík,
Matěj Komanec,
& Eric Numkam Fokoua
, 2023 , Optical Fiber Technology , 81
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2023.103541
Type: article
All-fiber hollow core fiber gas cell
Dmytro Suslov,
Matěj Komanec,
Thomas William Kelly,
Ailing Zhong,
Stanislav Zvanovec,
Francesco Poletti,
Natalie Wheeler,
& Radan Slavík
, 2023 , Optical Fiber Technology , 81
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2023.103513
Type: article
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