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Research interests
Optical fibres
Research interests
I am interested in how light travels along optical fibres, and in designing and making fibres so that the light travels in new and unusual ways. Examples include fibres that change along their lengths (eg tapered fibres), split and combine to form new waveguides (eg photonic lanterns), or incorporate patterns of air holes and other material variations across their structures (eg photonic crystal fibres and multi-core fibres). We gain understanding of these things by theory and simulations, and also by the use of our experimental facilities for fabricating fibres and post-processing them. This leads to benefits for applications such optical telecommunication, medical sensing and imaging, and astronomical instrumentation.
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Research and Partnership Hubs for Health Technologies: Technologies for Experimental Medicine
Birks, T. (PI), Rusimova, K. (CoI) & Stone, J. (CoI)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/04/25 → 31/03/28
Project: Research council
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U-Care: Deep Ultraviolet Light Therapies
Birks, T. (PI), Knight, J. (CoI), Stone, J. (CoI), Wadsworth, W. (CoI) & Harrington, K. (Researcher)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/01/21 → 31/12/26
Project: Research council
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Quantum Data Centre of the Future
Mosley, P. (PI), Rusimova, K. (PI), Birks, T. (CoI) & Rusimova, K. (CoI)
Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
1/03/22 → 31/03/25
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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IRC Proteus II
Birks, T. (PI), Knight, J. (CoI) & Stone, J. (Researcher)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/04/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research council
Research output
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Measuring the number of modes guided by multi-mode hollow core fibres
Mears, R., Harrington, K., Wadsworth, W., Bird, D., Stone, J. & Birks, T., 19 Jan 2026, (Acceptance date) In: Optics Express.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Highly multi-mode hollow core fibers
Mears, R., Harrington, K., Wadsworth, W. J., Stone, J. M. & Birks, T. A., 16 Jun 2025, In: Optics Express. 33, 12, p. 25669-25677 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mode counting in multimode anti-resonant hollow core fibres
Mears, R., Harrington, K., Stone, J. M., Wadsworth, W. J. & Birks, T. A., 27 Jun 2025, 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025. IEEE, p. 1 (2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025).Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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Multimode Imaging with Hollow-Core Fibres
Harrington, K., Neto, J. G. M. N., Mears, R., Rocha, J. C. A., Stone, J. M., Wadsworth, W. J., Jesus-Silva, A. J., Birks, T. A. & Phillips, D. B., 27 Jun 2025, 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025. U. S. A.: IEEE, (2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025).Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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Resonance-free deep ultraviolet to near infrared supercontinuum generation in a hollow-core antiresonant fibre
Sabbah, M., Mears, R., Harrington, K., Wadsworth, W., Stone, J., Birks, T. & Travers, J. C., 24 Mar 2025, In: JPhys: Photonics. 7, 025019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (SciVal)
Datasets
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Data for "High resolution air-clad imaging fibers"
Wood, H. (Creator), Harrington, K. (Creator), Knight, J. (Creator), Birks, T. (Creator) & Stone, J. (Creator), University of Bath, 27 Sept 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00554
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Dataset for "Guidance of ultraviolet light down to 190 nm in a hollow-core optical fibre"
Mears, R. (Creator), Harrington, K. (Creator), Wadsworth, W. (Creator), Knight, J. (Creator), Stone, J. (Creator) & Birks, T. (Creator), University of Bath, 28 Feb 2024
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01333
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Dataset for "All-fibre wavefront sensor"
Wright, T. (Creator), Yerolatsitis, S. (Creator), Harrington, K. (Creator), Harris, R. (Creator) & Birks, T. (Creator), University of Bath, 13 Jun 2022
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01135
Dataset
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Dataset for "Attenuation limit of silica-based hollow-core fiber at mid-IR wavelengths"
Knight, J. (Creator), Yu, F. (Creator), Bird, D. (Creator), Birks, T. (Creator), Song, P. (Creator) & Wu, D. (Creator), University of Bath, 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00671
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Dataset for Multi-core anti-resonant hollow core optical fibre
Mears, R. (Creator), Harrington, K. (Creator), Wadsworth, W. (Creator), Stone, J. (Creator) & Birks, T. (Creator), University of Bath, 22 Nov 2024
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01457
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