Research project

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

Lead researcher:

Professor Sir David Payne
Other researchers:

Professor Jayanta Sahu,

Professor Andy Clarkson,

Professor Michalis Zervas,

Professor David Richardson,

Professor Johan Nilsson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Sir David Payne KBE CBE FRS FREng

Professor of Photonics

Research interests

high-power fibre lasers
spun fibres for control of dispersion, now extensively used in undersea fibre cables
the Er/Yb cladding-pumped fibre amplifier used for cable television distribution

Connect with Sir David

Email: dnp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

Connect with Jayanta

Email: jks@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research

Connect with Andy

Email: wac@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications

Connect with Michalis

Email: mnz@soton.ac.uk

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

Hollow Core Optical Fibres
Optical Communications
High Power Fibre Lasers

Connect with David

Email: djr@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics

Connect with Johan

Email: jn@orc.soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Direct generation of radially-polarized output from an Yb-doped fiber laser

Di Lin, J.M.O. Daniel, M. Gecevičius, M. Beresna, P.G. Kazansky & W.A. Clarkson, 2014

DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.JW2A.22

Type: conference

Fabrication and demonstration of nanomechanical optical fibers

Z. Lian, M. Segura, Nina Podoliak, X. Feng, W.H. Loh, P. Horak & F. Poletti, 2014

DOI: 10.1364/FBTA.2014.FF3E.2

Type: conference

Leakage channel fibers with microstructured cladding elements: a unique LMA platform

Sonali Dasgupta, John R. Hayes & David J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(7), 8574-8584

DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.008574

Type: article

835 nm fiber Raman laser pulse pumped by a multimode laser diode at 806 nm

Tianfu Yao & Johan Nilsson, 2014, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 31(4), 882-888

DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.000882

Type: article

High power diode-seeded fiber amplifiers at 2µm - from architectures to applications

Alexander M. Heidt, Zhihong Li & David J. Richardson, 2014, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 20(5), 1-12

DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2312933

Type: article