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Open AccessFormation of optical supramolecular structures in a fibre laser by tailoring long-range soliton interactions
Self-assembly of fundamental elements through weak, long-range interactions plays a central role in both supramolecular DNA assembly and bottom-up synthesis of nanostructures. Optical solitons, analogous in ma...
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Open AccessMid-infrared dispersive wave generation in gas-filled photonic crystal fibre by transient ionization-driven changes in dispersion
Gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibre is being used to generate ever wider supercontinuum spectra, in particular via dispersive wave emission in the deep and vacuum ultraviolet, with a multitude of app...
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Correction: Corrigendum: All-optical bit storage in a fibre laser by optomechanically bound states of solitons
Nature Photonics 10, 454–458 (2016); published online 30 May 2016; corrected after print 20 October 2016. In the version of this Letter originally published, in the Acknowledgements, the name 'G. Onishchukov' ...
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All-optical bit storage in a fibre laser by optomechanically bound states of solitons
Optomechanically coupled modes in a fibre laser cavity make it possible to generate and robustly store gigahertz-rate soliton sequences.
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Flying particle sensors in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre
Optical fibre sensors make use of diverse physical effects to measure parameters such as strain, temperature and electric field. Here we introduce a new class of reconfigurable fibre sensor, based on a ‘flying...
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Gas, Glass and Light: Controlling Light-Matter Interactions in Microstructured Fibres
Micro/nano-structured and photonic crystal fibres have in recent years been used to enhance light-matter interactions in many different ways. I will review some recent examples from the work of my group.
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Open AccessRydberg atoms in hollow-core photonic crystal fibres
The exceptionally large polarizability of highly excited Rydberg atoms—six orders of magnitude higher than ground-state atoms—makes them of great interest in fields such as quantum optics, quantum computing, q...
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Broadband single-photon-level memory in a hollow-core photonic crystal fibre
Storing information encoded in light is critical for realizing optical buffers for all-optical signal processing1,2 and quantum memories for quantum information processing3,4. These proposals require efficient in...
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Hollow-core photonic crystal fibres for gas-based nonlinear optics
Unlike the capillaries conventionally used for gas-based spectral broadening of ultrashort (<100 fs) multi-millijoule pulses, which produce only normal dispersion at usable pressure levels, hollow-core photoni...
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Nonlinear optics in Xe-filled hollow-core PCF in high pressure and supercritical regimes
Supercritical Xe at 293 K offers a Kerr nonlinearity that can exceed that of fused silica while being free of Raman scattering. It also has a much higher optical damage threshold and a transparency window that...
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Reconfigurable light-driven opto-acoustic isolators in photonic crystal fibre
Dynamic optical isolation with all-optical switching capability is in great demand in advanced optical communications and all-optical signal processing systems. Most conventional optical isolators rely on Fara...
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Multi-mJ carrier envelope phase stabilized few-cycle pulses generated by a tabletop laser system
A compact system for the generation of few-cycle multi-mJ Carrier Envelope Phase (CEP) stabilized pulses is presented. At the output 1.9 mJ, 5.7 fs pulses were achieved after hollow fiber compression (HFC) of ...
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Bio-sensing using recessed gold-filled capillary amperometric electrodes
A novel recessed electrode is reported for amperometric detection of hydrogen peroxide and via glucose oxidase for the detection of glucose. The electrode utilised electrodeposited platinum over a gold wire surfa...
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Tightly trapped acoustic phonons in photonic crystal fibres as highly nonlinear artificial Raman oscillators
The scattering of laser light by acoustic phonons confined within a photonic crystal fibre reveals unexpected highly nonlinear acoustic modes that behave like the Raman-active modes of a molecule.
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Control of dispersion in photonic crystal fibers
Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) exploit the large index difference between air and glass to achieve modal properties unattainable by conventional fiber techniques.
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Stimulated Brillouin scattering from multi-GHz-guided acoustic phonons in nanostructured photonic crystal fibres
Wavelength-scale periodic microstructuring dramatically alters the optical properties of materials. An example is glass photonic crystal fibre1 (PCF), which guides light by means of a lattice of hollow micro/nano...
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Control of dispersion in photonic crystal fibers
Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) exploit the large index difference between air and glass to achieve modal properties unattainable by conventional fiber techniques.
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Compact, stable and efficient all-fibre gas cells using hollow-core photonic crystal fibres
Gas-phase lasers small enough to fit in a credit card or hand-held laser pointer could soon become a reality. A hollow-core photonic crystal fibre based gas cell has been developed, containing a tenth of a mic...
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Spectral-temporal soliton dynamics analysis near second zero-dispersion point in photonic crystal fibers
The propagation dynamics of an ultrashort optical pulse near the second zero-dispersion point of a small-core high-delta photonic crystal fiber is investigated using cross-correlation frequency-resolved optica...
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Transformation and control of ultra-short pulses in dispersion-engineered photonic crystal fibres
Photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) offer greatly enhanced design freedom compared to standard optical fibres. For example, they allow precise control of the chromatic dispersion (CD) profile—the frequency dependen...
