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Hollow Core Fibre Photonics

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Professor of Optoelectronics

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications

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Other researchers

Professor Sir David Payne KBE CBE FRS FREng

Head of School

Research interests

  • Many and varied across photonics, particularly in optical fibre design and fabrication, optical materials, optical sensing, and high-power fibre lasers.

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Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

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Professor Francesco Poletti

Professorial Fellow-Research

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Professor Periklis Petropoulos

Professor

Research interests

  • Professor Petropoulos is responsible for the Telecommunications Systems Laboratory of the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC).
  • He is member of the research groups Optical Fibre Communications and Advanced Fibre Technologies & Applications

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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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Research outputs

Low loss and broadband low back-reflection interconnection between a hollow-core and standard single-mode fiber
Dmytro Suslov,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
Daniel Dousek,
Ailing Zhong,
Stanislav Zvanovec,
Thomas Bradley,
Francesco Poletti,
David J. Richardson,
Matěj Komanec,
& Radan Slavík
, 2022 , Optics Express
Type: article
Roadmap on multimode photonics
Ilaria Cristiani,
Cosimo Lacava,
Georg Rademacher,
Benjamin Puttnam,
Ruben Luis,
Cristian Antonelli,
Antonio Mecozzi,
Mark Shtaif,
Daniele Cozzolino,
Davide Bacco,
Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe,
Jian Wang,
Yongmin Jung,
David J. Richardson,
Siddharth Rmachandran,
Massimiliano Guasoni,
Katarzyna Krupa,
Denis Kharenko,
Alessandro Tonello,
Stefan Wabnitz,
David Phillips,
Daniele Faccio,
Tijmen Euser,
Shangran Xie,
Philip Russell,
Daoxin Dai,
Yu Yu,
Periklis Petropoulos,
Frederic Gardes,
& Francesca Parmigiani
, 2022 , Journal of Optics , 24 (8)
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac7a48
Type: article
Super-broadband on-chip continuous spectral translation unlocking coherent optical communications beyond conventional telecom bands
Deming Kong,
Yong Liu,
Zhengqi Ren,
Yongmin Jung,
Chanju Kim,
Yong Chen,
Natalie Wheeler,
Marco Petrovich,
Minhao Pu,
Kresten Yvind,
Michael Galili,
Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe,
David J. Richardson,
& Hao Hu
, 2022 , Nature Communications , 13 (1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31884-2
Type: article
Angle-spliced SMF to hollow core fiber connection with optimized back-reflection and insertion loss
Cong Zhang,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
Songnian Fu,
Meng Ding,
Francesco Poletti,
David J. Richardson,
& Radan Slavík
, 2022 , IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
Type: article
Hollow core fiber Fabry-Perot interferometers with reduced sensitivity to temperature
Meng Ding,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
John R. Hayes,
Hesham Sakr,
Peter Horak,
Francesco Poletti,
David J. Richardson,
& Radan Slavík
, 2022 , Optics Letters , 47 (10) , 2510--2513
DOI: 10.1364/OL.456589
Type: article
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