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Overcoming Capacity & Energy

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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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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