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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

Stable 100 GHz Pulses Generated by injection locking of multiple lasers to an optical frequency comb
D.S. Wu, D.J. Richardson & R. Slavík, 2014
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801272
Type: conference
High power diode-seeded fiber amplifiers at 2µm - from architectures to applications
Alexander M. Heidt, Zhihong Li & David J. Richardson, 2014, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 20(5), 1-12
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2312933
Type: article
An optical phase quantiser exhibiting suppressed phase dependent gain variation
K. Bottrill, G. Hesketh, F. Parmigiani, P. Horak, D.J. Richardson & P. Petropoulos, 2014
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2014.W3F.7
Type: conference
First investigation of longitudinal defects in hollow core photonic bandgap fibers
S.R. Sandoghchi, T. Zhang, J.P. Wooler, N.K. Baddela, N.V. Wheeler, Y. Chen, G. Jasion, D.R. Gray, E. Numkam Fokoua, J.R. Hayes, M.N. Petrovich, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2014
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2014.M2F.6
Type: conference
Novel optical fibers for telecommunications and high-power laser applications
J.K. Sahu, D. Jain, S. Jain, T.C. May-Smith & C. Baskiotis, 2014
Type: conference