Exploring the limits of glass optical fibers

拟议的5年研究计划涉及特种玻璃纤维(SGF)的非凡发现潜力，这是一项融合了物理学、光纤和材料科学的创新研究领域，为广泛的知识用户带来了革命性的概念、新的应用范例和技术影响。该研究计划的目标包括对SGF的长期研究，以及材料科学、物理和化学之间的相互关系，为这一研究领域赋予创造力和创新，这是最近在电信、医疗保健、能源生产和环境监测方面许多高影响力研究进展的核心。这项研究计划将包括在提高最佳实践标准的研究单位内培训光学、光子学、化学、材料科学和物理领域的高素质人员。*具体地说，拟议的研究计划旨在促进创新玻璃纤维的广泛科学和技术成果，促进和保持玻璃科学高质量研究的多样化基础，同时利用加拿大顶级研究基础设施，以促进研究卓越，并为研究培训提供刺激环境：**1-发现研究：研究玻璃和玻璃纤维中的新材料、新几何形状和新功能，并探索特种玻璃纤维的新挑战和潜在的变革性概念；*2-创新拓展：创新，发现新的应用范例，并在国内和国际层面对学术界和工业界的广泛知识用户和技术用户产生技术影响；*3-卓越计划：支持加拿大卓越光子创新研究教席(CERC)的长期持续卓越研究计划，并利用拉瓦尔大学已建立的最先进的基础设施进行专业玻璃纤维研究；*4-世界领先地位：使加拿大成为玻璃材料研究和创新纤维技术领域的世界领先者，并通过为高级玻璃科学和技术领域的高素质人员提供大量卓越的研究培训来保持世界领先地位。**

The proposed 5-year research program relates to the exceptional discovery potential of Specialty Glass Fibers (SGF), an innovative line of research where Physics, Fiber optics, and Materials sciences converge, bringing transformative concepts, new application paradigms, and technological impact to a wide range of knowledge-users. The objective of the research program consists of the long-term study of SGFs, and of the interrelation between Materials science, Physics, and Chemistry, that imparts creativity and innovation to this line of inquiry which is at the heart of many recent high-impact research advances in telecommunications, health care, energy production, and environmental monitoring. This research program will involve the training of highly qualified personnel in the field of optics, photonics, chemistry, materials sciences, and physics, within research units that raise the standard for best practice.***Specifically, the proposed research program aims at stimulating a broad spectrum of scientific and technological outcomes from innovative glass fibers, promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high-quality research in glass science, while leveraging top Canadian research infrastructures in order to foster research excellence and to provide a stimulating environment for research training:***1- DISCOVERY RESEARCH: Research new materials, new geometries, and new functionalization in glasses and glass fibers, and explore novel challenges and potentially transformative concepts for specialty glass fibers;***2- INNOVATIVE OUTREACH: Innovate, discover new application paradigms, and create technological impact to a wide range of knowledge-users and technology-users in academia and industry, at the national and international levels;***3- EXCELLENCE PROGRAM: Support the long-term ongoing excellence research program of Canada's Excellence Research Chair in Photonic Innovations (CERC), and leverage the state of the art infrastructures already set up at Laval University for Specialty Glass Fibers research;***4- WORLD LEADERSHIP: Make Canada a world leader in glass materials research and innovative fiber technologies, and maintain world leadership through a critical mass of research excellence training for highly qualified personnel in advanced glass science and technologies.**