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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

Graphene-based fiber polarizer with PVB-enhanced light interaction
Haojie Zhang, Noel Healy, Li Shen, Chung-Che Huang, Nikolaos Aspiotis, Daniel Hewak & Anna C. Peacock, 2016, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(15), 3563-3567
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2581315
Type: article
Enhanced pump absorption in double-clad fibres using localised laser-machined mode scramblers
A. Billaud, P.C. Shardlow, K. Boyd, N. Simakov, A. Hemming & W.A. Clarkson, 2016
Type: conference
Large mode area single trench fiber for 2 µm operation
Jayanta Sahu & Deepak Jain, 2016, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(14), 3412-3417
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2569664
Type: article
Modal content in hypocycloid Kagomé hollow core photonic crystal fibers
Thomas Bradley, Natalie Wheeler, G. Jasion, David Gray, John Hayes, Marcelo Botelho Alonso Gouveia, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Yong Chen, Francesco Poletti, David Richardson & Marco Petrovich, 2016, Optics Express, 24(14), 15798-15812
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.015798
Type: article
S2 measurement of higher order mode content in low loss hypocycloid Kagomé hollow core photonic crystal fiber
Thomas Bradley, Natalie V. Wheeler, G. Jasion, David Gray, John Hayes, Marcelo Botelho Alonso Gouveia, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Yong Chen, Francesco Poletti, Marco Petrovich & David Richardson, 2016
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.STu4P.8
Type: conference