Overcoming Capacity & Energy

Staff

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.

Connect with Radan

Email: R.Slavik@soton.ac.uk

Zhixin Liu, Brian Kelly, John O'Carroll, Richard Phelan, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2016, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(13), 3223 - 3229

Type: article

Joonyoung Kim, Giuseppe Marra, David Wu, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2016, Optics Letters, 41(8), 1716-1719

DOI: 10.1364/OL.41.001716

Type: article

Zhixin Liu, Selina G. Farwell, Mike J. Wale, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2016

Type: conference

Zhixin Liu, J. Kakande, B. Kelly, J. O'Carroll, R. Phelan, D.J. Richardson & R. Slavík, 2016

Type: conference

Radan Slavík, Giuseppe Marra, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Naveen Baddela, Natalie V. Wheeler, Marco Petrovich, Francesco Poletti & David J. Richardson, 2015, Scientific Reports, 5

DOI: 10.1038/srep15447

Type: article

Radan Slavík, Zhixin Liu & David Richardson, 2015

Type: conference

Joonyoung Kim, Harald Schnatz, David S. Wu, Giuseppe Marra, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2015, Optics Letters, 40(18), 4198-4201

DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.004198

Type: article