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Research project

Self-organization of light in multicore optical fibres: a route to scalable high-power lasers and all-optical signal processing

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Massimiliano Guasoni

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Nonlinear optics
  • Fiber optical amplifiers and oscillators
  • Integrated photonics
Connect with Massimiliano

Email: M.Guasoni@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

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 Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research
Connect with Jayanta

Email: jks@orc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Multimode Photonics

Our research encompasses both fundamental optical physics as well as the design, fabrication and testing of fibre-based and on-chip devices for a broad range of applications.

Research outputs

Mode attraction, rejection and control in nonlinear multimode optics
Kunhao Ji, Ian Davidson, Jayanta Sahu, David J. Richardson, Stefan Wabnitz & Massimiliano Guasoni, 2023, Nature Communications, 14(1), 7704
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42869-0
Type: article
All-optical, reconfigurable mode switcher integrated in multicore fibers with a counter-propagating configuration
Kunhao Ji, Ian Davidson, Jayanta Sahu, Yongmin Jung, David J. Richardson & Massimiliano Guasoni, 2023
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2023.SM4L.3
Type: conference
Controlled generation of picosecond-pulsed higher-order Poincaré sphere beams from an ytterbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier
Kunhao Ji, Di Lin, Ian A. Davidson, Siyi Wang, Joel Carpenter, Yoshimichi Amma, Yongmin Jung, Massimiliano Guasoni & David J. Richardson, 2022, Photonics Research
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.475287
Type: article
Roadmap on multimode photonics
Ilaria Cristiani, Cosimo Lacava, Georg Rademacher, Benjamin Puttnam, Ruben Luis, Cristian Antonelli, Antonio Mecozzi, Mark Shtaif, Daniele Cozzolino, Davide Bacco, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Jian Wang, Yongmin Jung, David J. Richardson, Siddharth Rmachandran, Massimiliano Guasoni, Katarzyna Krupa, Denis Kharenko, Alessandro Tonello, Stefan Wabnitz, David Phillips, Daniele Faccio, Tijmen Euser, Shangran Xie, Philip Russell, Daoxin Dai, Yu Yu, Periklis Petropoulos, Frederic Gardes & Francesca Parmigiani, 2022, Journal of Optics, 24(8)
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac7a48
Type: article
Multicore fibers
Saurabh Jain, Kunhao Ji, Jayantha Sahu, David J. Richardson, Julien Fatome, Stefan Wabnitz & Massimiliano Guasoni, 2021
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/Europe-EQEC52157.2021.9542764
Type: conference