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: frap@orc.soton.ac.uk Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups Fibres and Communications We develop new fibre technologies and explore their applications in areas including communications, sensing, lasers, materials processing and imaging. 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