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Research project

Antiresonant Hollow Optical Fibres for a Quantum Leap in Data and Optical Power Transmission

Staff

Lead researcher

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
Connect with Francesco

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Hollow Core Fibre

We are world-leaders in Hollow Core Optical Fibre research. Our ground-breaking fibres guide light at vacuum speeds and unprecedented intensities, enabling advances in telecoms, manufacturing, and sensing.

Research outputs

Dual O+C-band WDM transmission over 1-km hollow core NANF using an O-Band bismuth-doped fibre amplifier
Yang Hong, Natsupa Taengnoi, Kyle Bottrill, Hesham Sakr, Thomas Bradley, John R. Hayes, Gregory Jasion, Yu Wang, Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, Andrey A Umnikov, Jayanta Sahu, Francesco Poletti, Periklis Petropoulos & David Richardson, 2020
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2019.0848
Type: conference
Multiport micro-optic devices for hollow core fibre applications
Yongmin Jung, Thomas Bradley, John Richard Hayes, Gregory Jasion, Ian Davidson, Hesham Sakr, Yong Chen, Francesco Poletti & David Richardson, 2019
Type: conference
Towards high accuracy positioning in 5G via passive synchronization of base stations using thermally-insensitive optical fibers
Wenwu Zhu, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Yong Chen, Thomas Bradley, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Meng Ding, Gregory Jasion, Marco Petrovich, Francesco Poletti, Mingshan Zhao, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2019, IEEE Access, 7, 113197-113205
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2934982
Type: article
Demonstration of opposing thermal sensitivities in hollow core fibers with open and sealed ends
Radan Slavík, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Michael Bukshtab, Yong Chen, Thomas Bradley, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Marco Petrovich, Francesco Poletti & David Richardson, 2019, Optics Letters, 44(17), 4367-4370
DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.004367
Type: article
Fabrication of tubular anti-resonant hollow core fibers: modelling, draw dynamics and process optimization
Gregory Jasion, John Hayes, Natalie Wheeler, Yong Chen, Thomas Bradley, David Richardson & Francesco Poletti, 2019, Optics Express, 27(15), 20567-20582
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.020567
Type: article