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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

Applications of chalcogenide fibers
D.W. Hewak, K. Khan & C.C. Huang, 2011
DOI: 10.1364/SOF.2011.SOTuB1
Type: conference
Novel technique for mode selection in a multimode fiber laser
J.M.O. Daniel, J.S.P. Chan, J.W. Kim, J.K. Sahu, M. Ibsen & W.A. Clarkson, 2011, Optics Express, 19(13), 12434-12439
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012434
Type: article
High-energy Q-switched Er:YAG laser with Laguerre-Gaussian (LG01) mode output
J.W. Kim, J.I. Mackenzie, J.R. Hayes & W.A. Clarkson, 2011
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942442
Type: conference
High-power fibre-laser-pumped Er:YAG laser with top-hat output beam
J.W. Kim, J.I. Mackenzie, J.R. Hayes & W.A. Clarkson, 2011
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942440
Type: conference
Internal resonantly enhanced frequency doubling of continuous-wave fiber lasers
R. Cieslak & W.A. Clarkson, 2011, Optics Letters, 36(10), 1896-1898
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001896
Type: article