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Reliable low loss guidance of ultraviolet and visible light in optical fibres has long been sought after for a wide range of applications. In solid glass fibres such guidance is limited primarily due to Rayleigh scattering and photodarkening effects caused by the UV itself. Hollow core fibres can avoid these …

In collaboration with our colleagues Sacha Medaer and Diego Di Francesca at CERN, we have recently published the first report of a detailed gamma and x-ray irradiation of a nested antiresonant hollow core fibre (HCF). Up to the maximum irradiated doses reached in the experiment of 100 KGy ad 240 kGy, respectively, virtually no radiation induced …

As the nonlinear fibre optics community know well, the “low nonlinearity” of hollow core fibres can be actually large enough to produce useful nonlinear effects, if both the peak power of the launched pulses and, to some extent, the gas pressure (hence the nonlinearity) inside the fibre are suitably turned …

We presented a new record low loss result at the OFC 2020 post-deadline session, halving the previous record we presented 6 months ago, at the European Conference of Optical Communications in September 2019. The fibre developed was of the NANF variety (Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fiber), https://www.airguide.soton.ac.uk/news/6664 https://www.laserfocusworld.com/fiber-optics/article/14173052/hollowcore-optical-fiber-rapidly-closing-in-on-solidcore-transmission-specifications