It currently consists of ten members including two Senior Research Fellows, three Research Fellows, two PhD students, Experimental Officiers and Technical Support.
Facilities provide a wide range of specialized glass making and fibre drawing equipment.
Five nitrogen purged glove boxes provide safe, high purity facilities for glass preparation. Ten glass melting and anealling furnaces provide a wide range of temperatures, atmospheres and melt conditions. With these facilities, the ORC provides fibre and glass samples to a wide range of external collaborators which include universities and industry in the UK and abroad and carries out a diverse spectrum of research. Our fibre fabrication laboratories provide a unique, world-class research facility and have been the foundation of many of the ORC's key scientific breakthroughs, including the erbium doped fibre amplifier. The diversity of this equipment allows the group to rapidly redirect its research activities and respond instantly to emerging technologies.