The University鈥檚 (ORC) is to lead a 拢6.1m programme to develop the next generation of fibre optics and position the UK as a world-leader in this technology.
Bringing together expertise in the ORC with over 25 research organisations and industry partners, Airguide Photonics will transform future fibre networks and generate enormous potential for a multitude of uses ranging from a faster more responsive internet, through space exploration, to laser based manufacturing and bioengineering.
Led by , the programme鈥檚 research team will explore the performance limits of hollow-core fibre technology 鈥� where the glass 鈥榗ore鈥� of conventional optical fibres used the world over, is replaced with air, or a vacuum, to produce hollow-core 鈥榣ight pipes鈥�. Guiding light through air in this way, rather than through glass, will increase the fibre鈥檚 bandwidth, power handling and light transmission quality.
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