Novel photonic glasses synthesis and fabrication:

• Active and passive novel glass optical fibres
• 2-dimensional integrated optics
• 3-dimensional storage devices

A dedicated facility for melting novel glasses and fabricating and characterising new types of waveguides, including a class-10,000 cleanroom, has been commissioned.  In-house interdisciplinary collaboration with the George Green Institute for Electromagnetics allows us to design new waveguides. 

Applications include:

• Optical fibres for laser power transmission for surgery and industrial machining
• Waveguide switches
• Amplifiers and sensors
• 2- and 3- dimensional optical memory

Recent research sponsors include: 

• Dstl
• QinetiQ
• EPSRC
• industries