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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

Modulator-free quadrature amplitude modulation signal synthesis
Zhixin Liu, Joseph Kakande, Brian Kelly, John O’Carroll, Richard Phelan, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2014, Nature Communications, 5
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6911
Type: article
Cladding pumped few-mode EDFA for mode division multiplexed transmission
Y. Jung, E.L. Lim, Q. Kang, T.C. May-Smith, N.H.L. Wong, R. Standish, F. Poletti, J.K. Sahu, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(23), 29008-29013
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.029008
Type: article
Few-mode multi-element fiber amplifier for mode division multiplexing
S. Jain, Y. Jung, T. May-Smith, S.U. Alam, J.K. Sahu & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(23), 29031-29036
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.029031
Type: article
X-ray tomography for structural analysis of microstructured and multimaterial optical fibers and preforms
S.R. Sandoghchi, G. Jasion, N.V. Wheeler, S. Jain, Z. Lian, J.P. Wooler, R.P. Boardman, N. Baddela, Y. Chen, J. Hayes, E. Numkam Fokoua, T. Bradley, D.R. Gray, S.M. Abokhamis Mousavi, M. Petrovich, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(21), 26181-26192
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.026181
Type: article
Suppression of gain variation in a PSA-based phase regenerator using an additional harmonic
K. Bottrill, Graham D. Hesketh, Francesca Parmigiani, Peter Horak, David J. Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2014, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26(20), 2074-2077
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2347198
Type: article