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Research project

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

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

A sheet-stacking technique for making multiple air-suspended-core optical fibres
Jindan Shi, X. Feng, Z.G. Lian, N.M. White, P. Horak & W.H. Loh, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/WSOF.2013.T1.2
Type: conference
An all-optical, non-volatile, bidirectional, phase-change meta-switch
Behrad Gholipour, Jianfa Zhang, Kevin F. MacDonald, Daniel W. Hewak & Nikolay I. Zheludev, 2013, Advanced Materials, 25(22), 3050-3054
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201300588
Type: article
Data transmission over 1km HC-PBGF arranged with microstructured fiber spliced to both itself and SMF
J.P. Wooler, F. Parmigiani, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, N.V. Wheeler, D.R. Gray, F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.1359
Type: conference
Demonstration of amplified data transmission at 2 µm in a low-loss wide bandwidth hollow core photonic bandgap fiber
M.N. Petrovich, F. Poletti, J.P. Wooler, A.M. Heidt, N.K. Baddela, Zhihong Li, D.R. Gray, R. Slavík, F. Parmigiani, N.V. Wheeler, John Hayes, Eric Numkam Fokoua, L. Grüner-Nielsen, B. Pálsdóttir, R. Phelan, B. Kelly, J. O'Carroll, M. Becker, N. MacSuibhne, J. Zhao, F.C. Garcia Gunning, A.D. Ellis, P. Petropoulos, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Optics Express, 21(23), 28559-28569
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.028559
Type: article
First demonstration of a broadband 37-cell hollow core photonic bandgap fiber and its application to high capacity mode division multiplexing
Y. Jung, V.A.J.M. Sleiffer, N. Baddela, M.N. Petrovich, J.R. Hayes, N.V. Wheeler, D.R. Gray, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.P. Wooler, N.H.L. Wong, F. Parmigiani, S.-U. Alam, J. Surof, M. Kuschnerov, V. Veljanovski, H. de Waardt, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2013.PDP5A.3
Type: conference