Conference Agenda

For decades, hollow core fibres have been a fascinating tool for scientists, enabling long distance light guidance in any gas, as well as innovative experiments exploiting the long light:gas interaction length. For a long time, their optical performance fell much shorter than the requirements of optical communications. Recently though, thanks to nested antiresonant designs, the loss of these fibres has reached lower values than fundamentally achievable in conventional glass-guiding telecoms fibres, opening exploitation opportunities in data-transmission systems. This, added to negligible nonlinearity, very high damage threshold and ultimately low latency, has dramatically increased global interest in the technology for numerous applications involving the transmission and delivery of light. While there are still substantial challenges to be solved before they can achieve widespread commercialization, it is hard to believe that hollow core fibres will not find an application in the optical communication networks of the future. In this talk we will review state-of-the-art, opportunities and challenges of the hollow core fibre technology.

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