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EVacuAted OptiCal Fibres For Ultimate UV-to-Infrared Light TransMission

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Dr Peter Horak

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Theory and simulation of nonlinear and quantum optics
  • Laser pulse propagation and manipulation in optical fibres
  • Quantum technology, integrated optics, optical resonators
Connect with Peter

Email: peh@orc.soton.ac.uk

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. 
Connect with Radan

Email: R.Slavik@soton.ac.uk

Professor Natalie Wheeler

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Email: nvw1v10@orc.soton.ac.uk

Dr Martynas Beresna

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Martynas

Email: M.Beresna@soton.ac.uk

Dr Lin Xu

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Mode-locked fibre lasers (Ytterbium & Thulium fibre systems); 
  • Nonlinear fibre amplifiers for ultrashort pulses; 
  • Mid-infrared fibre lasers (Optical parametric devices); 
Connect with Lin

Email: L.Xu@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Connecting hollow-core and standard single-mode fibers with perfect mode-field size adaptation
Ailing Zhong, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Meng Ding, Daniel Dousek, Dmytro Suslov, Stanislav Zvanovec, Francesco Poletti, Radan Slavík & Matěj Komanec, 2023, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
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