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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

Primed to remember
2012, Science, 336(6088), 1515-1516
DOI: 10.1126/science.1223365
Type: article
High-energy Q-switched operation of a fiber-laser-pumped Er:YAG laser
J.W. Kim, J.K. Sahu & W.A. Clarkson, 2011, Applied Physics B, 105(2), 263-267
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-011-4542-z
Type: article
Cryogenically cooled erbium-doped fiber lasers
T.F. Yao, R. Steinborn, A.S. Webb, J.K. Sahu & J. Nilsson, 2011
DOI: 10.1364/SUMSESSION.2011.Th12
Type: conference
High power Er:YAG laser with radially-polarized Laguerre-Gaussian (LG01) mode output
J.W. Kim, J.I. Mackenzie, J.R. Hayes & W.A. Clarkson, 2011, Optics Express, 19(15), 14526-14531
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014526
Type: article
Fibers for high-power lasers and amplifiers
J.K. Sahu, S. Yoo, A.J. Boyland & A. Webb, 2011
Type: conference