If you are in the Totnes, Exeter or Devon area, please look out for Jack Pillar: news.devon-cornwall.police.uk/news-article... Thank you.

New paper 📝! In deep-UV AR-HCFs we found a reversible attenuation effect... like solarization, but temporary. We call it “pseudo-solarization.” doi.org/10.1364/OE.5... #research #photonics

🎉New paper! doi.org/10.1364/OE.5... 📝 We look at how different numbers of capillaries affect the guidance properties of hollow core fibres, enabling the guidance of ~ 50 modes in the near-infrared. Some cool fibres in here that guide the visible and ultraviolet #science #optics #photonics

Ran 10k this weekend with my sisters in memory of our Nan💙 Was special (and chaotic) doing it together — one sister ran with a broken elbow, the other with a broken toe 😅 We’ve raised £1.5k for the hospice. We’re really grateful for all the donations, thanks! 👉 fundraising.pwh.org.uk/fundraising/...

Happy to share our work published in Nature Photonics: "Threading light through dynamic complex media". We show how to pilot beams of light through the most stable channels within moving scattering media. Special thanks to Chai, Christina & John from the Structured Light Group, Exeter! #Photonics💡

"U-care" has published its latest study, led by Asta Valančiūtė, on bioRxiv. They show that even low doses of far-UVC light (206 nm, 222 nm) can directly damage DNA in human lung epithelial cells. Congrats to the team for their hard work: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come join us as a lecturer in the QIST CDT! Great chance to come and teach amazing students and contribute to @qetlabs.bsky.social world-leading research! bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... @qusit.bsky.social @qepnthub.bsky.social #quantum #technology

Poster submission deadline today! Get your abstract in! Some will be upgraded to talks too.

The @uniofbath.bsky.social Optical Fibres group is hiring! They are looking for a Professor and two Lecturers to join. If bespoke optical fibres could benefit your research, this is an opportunity. More info: www.bath.ac.uk/research-gro...

Time to nominate some #WomenInOptics for next year's notebook. Go on, I'm sure you know some.

Hello, just arrived on bsky! Looking for fellow optics researchers. To kick things off - here is our latest preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.14129 'Self-configuring high-speed multi-plane light conversion'. Lead author José Rocha prefers to go make a cup of tea rather than manually align his MPLC...

Traditional multi-mode #optical fibres are straightforward, but the same is difficult to achieve in hollow core fibres. We report anti-resonant hollow core optical fibres guiding at least 50 spatial modes in the infrared (~5-fold improvement ). #science #photonics #research arxiv.org/abs/2501.12996

Applications are *OPEN* for our Early Career Award Competition 2025! @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Great opportunity to receive recognition for your work in #microscopy, #Imaging or #FlowCytometry Shortlisted entrants will be invited to the final at #mmc2025 Enter now: rms.org.uk/opportunitie...

Plants play a LOT of clever tricks with light (beyond that little miracle that is photosynthesis). If the topic interest you, there is a #PhD position open to work on it with Dr. Rox Middleton (a very bright young researcher at @uniofbath.bsky.social) #PhDjobs botphot.com/wp-content/u...

Presenting 'u-Care #wrapped' for our last '24 meeting! 🎁🎶 Hope they're Spotify fans 😂 🟣 #UV #opticalfibre to 190 nm doi.org/10.1364/OE.5... 🔅 #deep-UV gen. in a hollow core fibre (HCF) doi.org/10.1364/OL.5... 🟢 UVA absorption in HCF doi.org/10.1364/OE.5... 🔬Multi-core HCF doi.org/10.1364/OL.5...

Hi all! Lots of new activity here, so I will introduce myself! I'm a UK early career researcher in photonics. I 🔹 Fabricate novel optical fibres 🔹 Post-process them to create advanced devices 💡 Focused on UV hollow-core fibres & applications in healthcare. I use bsky to post about my research 🔬

New research in Optics Express📜! We linked unexpected UV loss in HCFs to gaseous chlorine. For transmission to recover, this needs to diffuse out. This has implications for current goals for long length, high yields of #fibreoptic HCF #Photonics doi.org/10.1364/OE.5...

Our article on microstructured optical fibers is featured in @LaserFocusWorld! 📰 We explore how fibres like anti-resonant hollow-core & photonic crystal fibres can benefit quantum computing 🔊 www.laserfocusworld.com/fiber-optics... #Photonics #FiberOptics #Quantum

New paper on multi-core hollow-core fibres! 🎉 We show a fibre with low inter-core coupling, achieving optical losses as low as 0.03 dB/m (620 nm) & 0.08 dB/m (1000 nm). Also Robbie’s 2nd first-author paper of his PhD! arxiv.org/abs/2409.14555 #photonics #fiberoptics #research

Exciting week for our PhD student Robbie Mears at #FiO in Denver! 📢He’s presenting 3 of 5 talks in the "Fiber Optics and Optical Communications Photonics" session, covering multi-core & multi-mode hollow-core fibers. 📜Papers coming soon! #Optics #Photonics #UV #Ucare #science

Could microstructured hollow core fibres meet the diverse needs of #quantum sources and networks? We think so! 📈 Explore our findings in our press release: bath.ac.uk/announcement... or the paper directly pubs.aip.org/aip/apq/arti... #physics #research

Our #DeepUltraviolet hollow core optical fiber paper is finally published! doi.org/10.1364/OE.5... @Robbie_Mears98 first 1st author paper too !! Below is a thread with a summary breakdown of the important #science in the paper…

🎉New arxiv paper describes a low-loss hollow core optical fiber cell (0.6 dB @ 780 nm). For quantum memory & optical switching, this compact cell enables seamless integration for #quantumtech advancements! #Photonics #ResearchHighlight Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2401.10651