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

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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
Connect with Peter

Email: peh@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Radan Slavik

Professor of Photonics
Research interests
  • In recent years, there have been significant developments in lightwave technologies enabling …
  • Another exciting field is Hollow Core Optical fibres, which guides ligth in a central hole su…
Connect with Radan

Email: R.Slavik@soton.ac.uk

Professor Natalie Wheeler

Professor
Connect with Natalie

Email: nvw1v10@orc.soton.ac.uk

Dr Martynas Beresna

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Martynas

Email: M.Beresna@soton.ac.uk

Dr Lin Xu

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Mode-locked fibre lasers (Ytterbium & Thulium fibre systems); 
  • Nonlinear fibre amplifiers for ultrashort pulses; 
  • Mid-infrared fibre lasers (Optical parametric devices); 
Connect with Lin

Email: L.Xu@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Gas filling and evacuation of hollow-core optical fibres through laser-machined side channels
Peter Horak, Kavitha Srinivasan, Timothy Lee, Martynas Beresna, Radan Slavík & Natalie Wheeler, 2025
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON67126.2025.11125464
Type: conference
Gas flow modelling of hollow-core optical fibre evacuation through laser-machined channels in the cladding
Peter Horak, Kavitha Srinivasan, Radan Slavík & Natalie V. Wheeler, 2025
Type: conference
Spatially resolved pressure measurement of antiresonant hollow-core fibres using nonlinear optics
Mitchell Gerrard, Seyed Mohammad Abokhamis Mousavi, Radan Slavík & Peter Horak, 2025
Type: conference
Tunable lasers phaselocked to Optical Frequency Comb
Win Indra, Zitong Feng, Meng Ding, Josef Vojtěch & Radan Slavík, 2025, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 43(10), 4833-4839
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2025.3540298
Type: article
Spatially resolved gas pressure measurement in hollow-core optical fibres via four-wave mixing
Mitchell Gerrard, Mohammad Mousavi, Radan Slavík & Peter Horak, 2024
Type: conference
Splicing hollow core fiber with standard glass-core fiber with ultralow back-reflection and low coupling loss
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
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00677
Type: article
Extraction of attenuation and backscattering coefficient along hollow core fiber length using two-way optical time domain backscattering
Xuhao Wei, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Francesco Poletti & Radan Slavík, 2024
Type: conference