Airguide launches Collaboration Fund Call

The EPSRC-funded Programme Grant Airguide Photonics includes a Collaboration Fund to enable the inclusion of new partners to bring additional value to the programme.

Initial engagement will be via short research projects that support the objectives of the programme. UK-based academic researchers are invited to submit proposals for projects valued up to £50,000, (exceptionally up to £100,000), which directly or indirectly contribute to the key areas of the Airguide programme and which add benefit to the overall aims of the project.

The Call is particularly interested to receive proposals on the following topics:

1. Hollow Core Fibre development: aiming to design, develop, fabricate (and supply) the next generation of ultrahigh performance HCFs. 2. Hollow Core Fibre reliability and interconnection: addressing the key practical and reliability aspects associated with the deployment of HCFs in the real-world applications.

3. Amplifiers, lasers and components for Hollow Core Fibres: developing a suite of amplifiers compatible with the enormous operating bandwidth offered by HCFs and the key to unlocking long distance HCF transmission and many of the laser, sensor, quantum and metrology applications of HCFs.

4. Data transmission in Hollow Core Fibres: studying the transformative applications enabled by adoption of hollow-core fibre technology.

5. Laser delivery applications of Hollow Core Fibres: exploring the unique possible solution to fibre-based laser delivery of unprecedented power.

6. Hollow Core Fibre for sensing and metrology: looking to exploit the long gas/light interactions possible in Hollow Core Fibres (HCFs) as well as their stability with respect to environmental conditions, developing a range of new devices.

For more information about the Airguide Photonics Collaboration Call, including eligibility, funding levels, applications and deadlines, see www.airguide.soton.ac.uk/collaboration-fund.