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

High-power Er:YAG laser with quasi-top-hat output beam

J.W. Kim, J.I. Mackenzie, J.R. Hayes & W.A. Clarkson, 2012, Optics Letters, 37(9), 1463-1465

DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.001463

Type: article

Characterization of supercooled liquid Ge₂Sb₂Te₅ and its crystallization by ultrafast-heating calorimetry

2012, Nature Materials, 11(4), 279-283

DOI: 10.1038/NMAT3275

Type: letterEditorial

High-power tunable Er,Yb ribbon fiber laser

J.W. Kim, J.K. Sahu & W.A. Clarkson, 2012, Optics Communications, 285(6), 1362-1365

DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2011.11.059

Type: article

Wide-bandwidth low-loss 19-cell hollow core photonic band gap fiber and its potential for low latency data transmission

N.V. Wheeler, M.N. Petrovich, R. Slavík, N. Baddela, E. Numkam Fokoua, J. Hayes, D.R. Gray, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2012

DOI: 10.1364/NFOEC.2012.PDP5A.2

Type: conference

Fabrication of nanoscale glass fibers by electrospinning

M. Praeger, E. Saleh, A. Vaughan, W.J. Stewart & W.H. Loh, 2012, Applied Physics Letters, 100(6)

DOI: 10.1063/1.3684940

Type: article