Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials

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PCF fabrication facility enters the 4th generation with the delivery of a second fibre drawing tower

Introduction

CPPM June 2010
Members of the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials June 2010

Welcome to the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials.

The CPPM is formed by around 30 academics, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students from the Department of Physics at Bath, who work together in an interactive and collaborative environment doing cutting-edge research in Photonics. Much of our work is based in our state-of-the-art fabrication facilities and our extensive optical laboratories, which are equipped with a wide range of laser sources and optical test gear. We also do extensive numerical modelling of both linear and nonlinear optical effects.

The CPPM provides an outstanding environment for performing cutting-edge research in photonics, whether as a PhD student, a postdoctoral researcher or a more senior visiting scientist. This web site describes the range of activities in the Centre, some of our achievements, and the opportunities to come and work with us in Bath.


Academic Staff





PCF article in OPN

OPN March 2012 Cover
Vol 23 No 3
March 2012

Latest News

4th May 2012
New fibre drawing tower

18th April 2012
Postdoc position in PCF

1st April 2012
Dr Lucy Hooper wins KTP funding to work with Fianium

13th February 2012
Prof Jonathan Knight awarded IOP Prize

31st May 2011
Dr Jim Stone wins KTP funding to work with Fianium

27th January 2011
Prof Jonathan Knight has been made a Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Dr Fetah Benabid has been made a Fellow of the Optical Society of America

7th May 2010
Benabid's research is featured in the May 2010 edition of Laser Focus World

6th May 2010
D. Skryabin and A. Gorbach have published a colloquium paper in Reviews of Modern Physics, which is the most cited amongst physics journals (impact factor 34)

Recent Papers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30 (2013) 812-820
Dispersion of nonlinearity in subwavelength waveguides: derivation of pulse propagation equation and frequency conversion effects

Opt. Express 21 (2013) 5671-5676
Femtosecond pulses at 20 GHz repetition rate through spectral masking of a phase modulated signal and nonlinear pulse compression

Opt. Express 21 (2013) 4986-4994
Beam delivery and pulse compression to sub-50 fs of a modelocked thin-disk laser in a gas-filled Kagome-type HC-PCF fiber