About the project
This ambitious project would be suitable for a bright, motivated candidate with a strong physics, materials or engineering related background. You will develop highly transferable skills in materials growth, advanced numerical modelling and fibre device characterisation whilst interacting with a wide range of experts leading in the field.
The last few years have seen dramatic progress in the area of hollow fibres and in particular the development of a competing technology to photonic bandgap fibres based on a much simpler optical design, which are far easier to fabricate for both short and long wavelength transmission and have been demonstrated to have a greatly reduced overlap between the light travelling within the fibre and the silica forming the cladding. This novel form of hollow core optical waveguide is known as the anti-resonant fibre.
In this PhD studentship, the candidate will investigate an innovative waveguide platform based on composite material hollow core fibres which are able not only to transmit optical signals with low attenuation over a broad wavelength range of operation, but can also actively manage and control the transmitted signals, through modulation, amplification or light generation and frequency conversion.
