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Research project

The Photonic Hyperhighway

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 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

Nonlinearity mitigation for multi-channel 64-QAM signals in a deployed fiber link through optical phase conjugation
Satoshi Yoshima, Zhixin Liu, Yujia Sun, Kyle Bottrill, Francesca Parmigiani, Periklis Petropoulos & David Richardson, 2016
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.Th4F.4
Type: conference
Studying the limits of production rate and yield for the volume manufacturing of hollow core photonic band gap fibers
G. Jasion, Eric Numkam Fokoua, John S. Shrimpton, Dave J. Richardson & Francesco Poletti, 2015, Optics Express, 23(25), 32179 -32190
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.032179
Type: article
High dynamic range technique for discrete and distributed scattering loss measurement in microstructured optical fibres
Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, David Gray, Yong Chen, Natalie Wheeler, Thomas Bradley, John Hayes, Eric Numkam Fokoua, G. Jasion, S.M. Abokhamis Mousavi, Marco Petrovich & Francesco Poletti, 2015
DOI: 10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341613
Type: conference
Nonlinearity mitigation through optical phase conjugation in a deployed fibre link with full bandwidth utilization
S. Yoshima, Y. Sun, Kyle Bottrill, F. Parmigiani, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2015
DOI: 10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341992
Type: conference
PSA-based all-optical multi-channel phase regenerator
F. Parmigiani, K. Bottrill, R. Slavík, D.J. Richardson & P. Petropoulos, 2015
DOI: 10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341750
Type: conference