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Research project

The Photonic Hyperhighway

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 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

Research outputs

Thulium-fiber-laser-pumped, high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared orientation-patterned GaAs optical parametric generator and amplifier
Lin Xu, Qiang Fu, Sijing Liang, David Shepherd, David Richardson & Shaif-Ul Alam, 2017, Optics Letters, 42(19), 4036-4039
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.004036
Type: article
All-optical mitigation of nonlinear effects in practical transmission links
Periklis Petropoulos, 2017
DOI: 10.1364/SPPCOM.2017.SpTu2F.1
Type: conference
High core count multicore fiber amplifiers
Saurabh Jain, Yongmin Jung, Shaif-Ul Alam & David Richardson, 2017
DOI: 10.1364/NETWORKS.2017.NeW3B.5
Type: conference
Composite material hollow antiresonant fibers
Walter Belardi, Francesco De Lucia, Francesco Poletti & Pier J. Sazio, 2017, Optics Letters, 42(13), 2535-2538
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.002535
Type: article
How to make the propagation time through an optical fiber fully insensitive to temperature variations
Eric Numkam Fokoua, Marco N. Petrovich, Tom Bradley, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2017, Optica, 4(6), 659-668
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.4.000659
Type: article