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Research project

Airguide Photonics

Project overview

Optical fibres lie at the heart of our increasingly technological society. For example, they support the internet and mobile communications that we all now take for granted, they save lives through medical diagnosis and interventions using fibre-optic endoscopes, and they enable the mass production of a huge array of commercial products through fibre laser based materials processing.

Within our Airguide Photonics research programme we aim to translate Hollow Core Fibre (HCF) technology from the research lab to a deployable fibre technology, unleashing innovative applications across a broad range of science and engineering fields.

“The ORC has been pioneering the development of fibre optics and advancing communications technology for many years and has an impressive record of using research funding to collaborate with academic and industry partners. The AirGuide Photonics programme promises to push at the boundaries once more. We are confident that the research will uncover more discoveries and lead to world-leading innovations.”
Professor Tom Rodden - Deputy Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers
Other researchers

Professor Sir David Payne KBE CBE FRS FREng

Professor of Photonics

Research interests

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

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

Professor Periklis Petropoulos

Professor

Research interests

  • Optical communications,
  • All-optical signal processing,
  • Novel fibre and waveguide technologies

Professor Radan Slavik

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

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

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

Research outputs

Viktor Zuba,
Hesham Sakr,
Thomas Bradley,
John Hayes,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
S.U. Alam,
, 2022 , Nature Photonics , 16 (6) , 448--453
Type: article
Zitong Feng,
Giuseppe Marra,
Xi Zhang,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
Hesham Sakr,
John R Hayes,
, 2022 , Laser & Photonics Reviews , 16 (11)
Type: article
Giuseppe Marra,
Zitong Feng,
Hesham Sakr,
John R. Hayes,
Eric R. Numkam Fokoua,
, 2022 , IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology , 40 (16) , 5716--5721
Type: article
Vincent Michaud-Belleau,
Eric Numkam Fokoua,
Shuichiro Rikimi,
Thomas D. Bradley,
Jérôme Genest,
, 2022 , Physical Review A , 106 (2)
Type: article
Yang Hong,
Natsupa Taengnoi,
Naresh Kumar Thipparapu,
Yu Wang,
, 2022 , Optics Express , 30 (18) , 32189--32203
Type: article
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