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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

Absorption measurement errors in single-mode fibers resulting from re-emission of radiation
Yutong Feng, Betty Meng Zhang, Junqing Zhao, Sheng Zhu, Jonathan Price & Johan Nilsson, 2017, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 53(4)
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2017.2708610
Type: article
Low-loss Kagome hollow-core fibers operating from the near- to the mid-IR
N.V. Wheeler, T.D. Bradley, J.R. Hayes, M.A. Gouveia, Sijing Liang, Y. Chen, S.R. Sandoghchi, Seyed Mohammad Abokhamis Mousavi, F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich & D.J. Richardson, 2017, Optics Letters, 42(13), 2571-2574
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.002571
Type: article
Annular core photonic lantern spatial mode multiplexer
Zeinab Sanjabi Eznaveh, Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, Jose Antonio-Lopez, Yongmin Jung, Kai Shi, Benn C. Thomsen, David Richardson, Sergio G. Leon-Saval & Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, 2017
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.Tu3J.3
Type: conference
Approach for power scaling solid-state lasers with intracavity motion
Matthew Eckold, Jacob Mackenzie & William A. Clarkson, 2017, Optics Letters, 1-4
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.000775
Type: article
Overlapped pulsed pumping of tandem pumped fiber amplifiers to increase achievable pulse energy
Andrew Malinowski, Jonathan Price & Michael Zervas, 2017, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 53(2)
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2017.2657334
Type: article