Research project

EVacuAted OptiCal Fibres For Ultimate UV-to-Infrared Light TransMission

Staff

Other researchers

Dr Peter Horak

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Theory and simulation of nonlinear and quantum optics
  • Laser pulse propagation and manipulation in optical fibres
  • Quantum technology, integrated optics, optical resonators
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Professor Radan Slavik

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

  • In recent years, there have been significant developments in lightwave technologies enabling wide exploitation of optical phase, as exemplified in particular by the dawn of Coherent Optical Communications - the key enabler for the growth in the capacity of the Internet. This is due to many key breakthroughs in laser technology (low-noise low-cost and compact lasers), new revolutionary concepts that have recently  been introduced (e.g., the Optical Frequency Comb, the significance of which was demonstrated by the award of a Nobel Prize in 2005), and significant advances in electronics that, thanks to the increased speeds now possible, can accommodate the processing of very complicated coherent (amplitude + phase) signals.
  • Another exciting field is Hollow Core Optical fibres, which guides ligth in a central hole surrounded by a microstructure that prevents light escaping from the core. Although known for over 20 years, only very recently their fabrication enabled them to use their full potential. 
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Professor Natalie Wheeler

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Dr Martynas Beresna

Principal Research Fellow
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Dr Lin Xu

Associate Professor
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Bo Shi, Cong Zhang, Thomas Kelly, Xuhao Wei, Meng Ding, Meng Huang, Songnian Fu, Francesco Poletti & Radan Slavík, 2024, ACS Photonics, 11(8), 3288–3295
Type: article
Dmytro Suslov, Matěj Komanec, Thomas William Kelly, Ailing Zhong, Stanislav Zvanovec, Francesco Poletti, Natalie Wheeler & Radan Slavík, 2023, Optical Fiber Technology, 81
Type: article