Research project

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

Lead researchers:

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 researchers

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

Novel design of large-mode-area rod-type fibers with negative curvature trenches at 1 µm

Junhua Ji, Jiang Sun, Johan Nilsson & S. Yoo, 2014

DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.47

Type: conference

Impact of structural distortions on the performance of hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

Eric Numkam Fokoua, David J. Richardson & Francesco Poletti, 2014, Optics Express, 22(3), 2735-2744

DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.002735

Type: article

Low-loss and low-bend-sensitivity mid-infrared guidance in a hollow-core–photonic-bandgap fiber

Natalie V. Wheeler, Alexander M. Heidt, Naveen K. Baddela, Eric Numkam Fokoua, John R. Hayes, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Francesco Poletti, Marco N. Petrovich & David J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Letters, 39(2), 295-298

DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.000295

Type: article

Fast and broadband fiber dispersion measurement with dense wavelength sampling

Giorgio M. Ponzo, Marco N. Petrovich, Xian Feng, Peter Horak, Francesco Poletti, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(1), 943-953

DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000943

Type: article

Cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser with radially polarized output

Di Lin, Jae M.O. Daniel, Mindaugas Gecevičius, Martynas Beresna, P.G. Kazansky & W.A. Clarkson, 2014, Optics Letters, 39(18), 5359-5361

DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.005359

Type: article