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Controlling the Optical Properties of Hollow Core Fibres using Differential Refractive Index

Research groups:
Lead researchers:

Professor Natalie Wheeler
Research funder

Royal Society
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Not active

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Lead researchers

Professor Natalie Wheeler

Professor Natalie Wheeler

Professor

Connect with Natalie

Email: nvw1v10@orc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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.
Gas Photonics in Hollow Core Fibres 

Hollow core fibres enable gas-light interactions over extended lengths, opening up diverse applications in high sensitivity gas sensing, novel wavelengths generation, and waveguide enhancement.

Research outputs

Purging and evacuation of hollow-core optical fibres through permeation of helium through the jacket

Peter Horak, Kavitha Srinivasan, Thomas W. Kelly, Radan Slavík & Natalie V. Wheeler, 2026, Journal of Physics: Photonics, 8(3)

DOI: 10.1088/2515-7647/ae8a98

Type: article