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Kerrianne Harrington
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Scientist. Current muse is hollow core fibres.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🎉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
June 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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/...
May 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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💡
March 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"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...
March 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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
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March 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Poster submission deadline today! Get your abstract in! Some will be upgraded to talks too.
March 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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...
February 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Time to nominate some #WomenInOptics for next year's notebook. Go on, I'm sure you know some.
spie.org SPIE @spie.org · Feb 20
We want to know the #WomenInOptics who inspire you! 🔭

Nominate them to be included in the 2026 #SPIE Women in Optics notebook. Share their achievements and inspire future generations of #WomenInSTEM.

Nominations are due on 28 February: spie.smapply.io/prog...
February 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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...
January 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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
January 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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...
December 17, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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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
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December 17, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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...
December 12, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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 🔬
November 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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...
Optica Publishing Group
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October 8, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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
Microstructured optical fibers for quantum computing?
University of Bath physicists create microstructured hollow-core optical fibers to handle data transfer challenges expected with quantum computing.
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October 2, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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
September 25, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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
September 23, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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
Made at the University of Bath: Optical fibres fit for the age of quantum computing
A new generation of specialty optical fibres has been developed by physicists at Bath to cope with the data transfer challenges expected from quantum computing.
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August 7, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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…
March 4, 2024 at 11:22 AM
🎉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
January 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM