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Research project

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

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

Mode area scaling with multi-trench rod-type fibers
Deepak Jain, Catherine Baskiotis & Jayanta Kumar Sahu, 2013, Optics Express, 21(2), 1448-1455
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001448
Type: article
Overcoming the challenges of splicing dissimilar diameter solid-core and hollow-core photonic band gap fibers
J.P. Wooler, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, D.R. Gray, F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich, N.V. Wheeler, N. Baddela & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/WSOF.2013.W3.26
Type: conference
Recent advances in photonic bandgap fiber technology
Francesco Poletti, Natalie Wheeler, Naveen Baddela, Y. Jung, J.P. Wooler, D.R. Gray, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.R. Hayes, R. Slavík, S.-U. Alam, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, V.A.J.M. Sleiffer, M. Kuschnerov, M.N. Petrovich & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1109/PHOSST.2013.6614513
Type: conference
Towards water-free tellurite glass fiber for 2–5µm nonlinear applications
2013, Fibers, 1(3), 70-81
DOI: 10.3390/fib1030070
Type: article
Nanomechanical optical fiber
Zhenggang Lian, Peter Horak, Xian Feng, Limin Xiao, Ken Frampton, Nicholas White, John A. Tucknott, Harvey Rutt, David N. Payne, Will Stewart & Wei H. Loh, 2012, Optics Express, 20(28), 29386-29394
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029386
Type: article