Research project

The Photonic Hyperhighway

Lead researchers:

Professor Sir David Payne
Other researchers:

Professor David Richardson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

Optical side scattering radiometry for high resolution, wide dynamic range longitudinal assessment of optical fibers

S.R. Sandoghchi, M.N. Petrovich, D.R. Gray, Y. Chen, N.V. Wheeler, T.D. Bradley, N.H.L. Wong, G. Jasion, J.R. Hayes, E. Numkam Fokoua, M. Botelho Alonso Gouveia, S.M. Abokhamis Mousavi, D.J. Richardson & F. Poletti, 2015, Optics Express, 23(21), 27960-27974

DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.027960

Type: article

Broadband telecom to mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a dispersion-engineered silicon germanium waveguide

Mohamed A. Ettabib, Lin Xu, Adonis Bogris, Alexandros Kapsalis, Mohammad Belal, Emerick Lorent, Pierre Labeye, Sergio Nicoletti, Kamal Hammani, Dimitris Syvridis, David P. Shepherd, Jonathan H.V. Price, David J. Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2015, Optics Letters, 40(17), 4118-4121

DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.004118

Type: article

Accurate modelling of fabricated hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

Eric Numkam Fokoua, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Yong Chen, Gregory T. Jasion, Natalie V. Wheeler, Naveen K. Baddela, John R. Hayes, Marco N. Petrovich, David J. Richardson & Francesco Poletti, 2015, Optics Express, 23(18), 23117-23132

DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.023117

Type: article

Progress towards development of efficient Bi-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers

Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, Saurabh Jain, Andrey Umnikov, Pranabesh Barua & Jayanta Sahu, 2015

Type: conference

On the role of signal-pump ratio in fwm-based phase preserving amplitude regeneration

G. Hesketh, Kyle Bottrill, F. Parmigiani, D.J. Richardson & P. Petropoulos, 2015

DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193726

Type: conference