RAE - Sen Res Fellowship | University of Southampton

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.

Connect with Radan

Email: R.Slavik@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Interconnectivity between effectively single-moded antiresonant hollow core fibres and conventional single-mode fibres

Radan Slavík, Matěj Komanec & Eric Numkam Fokoua, 2023, Optical Fiber Technology, 81

DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2023.103541

Type: article

Angle-spliced SMF to hollow core fiber connection with optimized back-reflection and insertion loss

Cong Zhang, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Songnian Fu, Meng Ding, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2022, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(19), 6474-6479

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3186721

Type: article

Low loss and broadband low back-reflection interconnection between a hollow-core and standard single-mode fiber

Dmytro Suslov, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Daniel Dousek, Ailing Zhong, Stanislav Zvanovec, Thomas Bradley, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson, Matěj Komanec & Radan Slavík, 2022, Optics Express

Type: article

Hollow core fiber Fabry-Perot interferometers with reduced sensitivity to temperature

Meng Ding, Eric Numkam Fokoua, John R. Hayes, Hesham Sakr, Peter Horak, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2022, Optics Letters, 47(10), 2510-2513

DOI: 10.1364/OL.456589

Type: article

Polarization stable hollow core fiber interferometer with Faraday rotator mirrors

Radan Slavík, Daniel Dousek, Dmytro Suslov, Matej Komanec, Stanislav Zvanovec, Francesco Poletti & David J. Richardson, 2021, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 33(24), 1503-1506

DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2021.3129591

Type: article