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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

Fiber optical parametric amplifiers in optical communication systems
M.E. Marhic, P.A. Andrekson, P. Petropoulos, S. Radic, C. Peucheret & M. Zazayerifar, 2015, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 9(1), 50-74
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201400087
Type: article
FWM-based, idler-free phase quantiser with flexible operating power
Kyle Bottrill, L. Jones, F. Parmigiani, D.J. Richardson & P. Petropoulos, 2015
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2015.W4C.3
Type: conference
High-capacity directly modulated optical transmitter for 2µm spectral region
Zhixin Liu, Yong Chen, Zhihong Li, Brian Kelly, Richard Phelan, John O'Carroll, Tom Bradley, John Wooler, Natalie V. Wheeler, Alexander Heidt, Thomas Richter, Colja Schubert, Martin Becker, Francesco Poletti, Marco N. Petrovich, Shaif-ul Alam, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2015, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33(7), 1373-1379
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2397700
Type: article
Holmium-doped fiber amplifier for optical communications at 2.05 - 2.13 µm
N. Simakov, Z. Li, S.U. Alam, P.C. Shardlow, J.M.O. Daniel, D. Jain, J.K. Sahu, A. Hemming, W.A. Clarkson & D.J. Richardson, 2015
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2015.Tu2C.6
Type: conference
Homodyne OFDM with optical injection locking for carrier recovery
Zhixin Liu, Joon-Young Kim, David S. Wu, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2015, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33(1), 34-41
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2369994
Type: article