Research project

Overcoming Capacity & Energy

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Radan Slavik

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. 
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Research outputs

Moritz Merklein, Birgit Stiller, Irina V. Kabakova, Udara S. Mutugala, Khu Vu, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton & Radan Slavík, 2016, Optics Letters, 41(20), 4633-4636
Type: article
Moritz Merklein, Birgit Stiller, Irina V. Kabakova, Udara, Sandamal Mutugala, Khu Vu, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton & Radan Slavík, 2016
Type: conference
Zhixin Liu, Sezer Erkilinc, Brian Kelly, John O'Carroll, Richard Phelan, Benn Thomsen, Robert I. Killey, Polina Bayvel, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2016
Type: conference
Zhixin Liu, Brian Kelly, John O'Carroll, Richard Phelan, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2016, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(13), 3223 - 3229
Type: article