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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

Space division multiplexing using multi-element fibers
V.J.F. Rancaño, S. Jain, T.C. May-Smith, J.K. Sahu, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2014
DOI: 10.1109/SUM.2014.101
Type: conference
Reconfigurable modal gain control of a few-mode EDFA supporting six spatial modes
Y. Jung, Q. Kang, J.K. Sahu, B. Corbett, J. O'Callaghan, F. Poletti, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2014, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26(11), 1100-1103
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2315500
Type: article
Fabrication and demonstration of nanomechanical optical fibers
Z. Lian, M. Segura, Nina Podoliak, X. Feng, W.H. Loh, P. Horak & F. Poletti, 2014
DOI: 10.1364/FBTA.2014.FF3E.2
Type: conference
Signal regeneration techniques for advanced modulation formats
F. Parmigiani, K. Bottrill, G. Hesketh, P. Horak, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2014
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2014.STu2J.1
Type: conference
100-GHz grid-aligned multi-channel polarization insensitive black-box wavelength converter
Victor J.F. Rancaño, Francesca Parmigiani, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2014, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 32(17), 3027-3035
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2324278
Type: article