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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

Cavity-induced phase noise suppression in a Fabry-Perot modulator-based optical frequency comb
Joonyoung Kim, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2017, Optics Letters, 42(8), 15361539
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.001536
Type: article
Low-loss 25.3km few-mode ring-core fiber for mode-division multiplexed transmission
Yongmin Jung, Qiongyue Kang, Hongyan Zhou, Rui Zhang, Su Chen, Honghai Wang, Yucheng Yang, Xianqing Jin, Frank P. Payne, Shaif-ul Alam & David Richardson, 2017, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 35(8), 1363 - 1368
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2017.2658343
Type: article
Record high capacity (6.8 Tbit/s) WDM coherent transmission in hollow-core antiresonant fiber
Z. Liu, L. Galdino, J.R. Hayes, D. Lavery, B. Karanov, D.J. Elson, K. Shi, B.C. Thomsen, M.N. Petrovich, D.J. Richardson, F. Poletti, R. Slavík & P. Bayvel, 2017
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.Th5B.8
Type: conference
Flexible scheme for measuring chromatic dispersion based on interference of frequency tones
Kyle Bottrill, Mohamed A. Ettabib, James C. Gates, Cosimo Lacava, Francesca Parmigiani, David J. Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2017
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.Th4H.5
Type: conference
In-service crosstalk monitoring for dense space division multiplexed multi-core fiber transmission systems
T. Mizuno, A. Isoda, K. Shibahara, Y. Miyamoto, S. Jain, S.-U. Alam, D.J. Richardson, C. Castro, K. Pulverer, Y. Sasaki, Y. Amma, K. Takenaga, K. Aikawa & T. Morioka, 2017
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.M3J.2
Type: conference