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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

Hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers: technology and applications
Francesco Poletti, Marco N. Petrovich & David J. Richardson, 2013, Journal of Nanophotonics, 2(5-6), 315-340
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2013-0042
Type: article
Impact of structural distortions on the loss properties of hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers
Eric Numkam Fokoua, D.J. Richardson & F. Poletti, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/ACPC.2013.AW3C.2
Type: conference
Multi-element fibre for space-division multiplexed transmission
S. Jain, T.C. May-Smith, V.J.F. Rancaño, P. Petropoulos, D.J. Richardson & J.K. Sahu, 2013
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.1300
Type: conference
Optical and RF power requirements for a new injection-locked semiconductor laser diode method compared with conventional approaches for QPSK and QAM modulation
R. Slavík, B. Kelly, R. Phelan, J. O'Carroll & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.1610
Type: conference
Overcoming the challenges of splicing dissimilar diameter solid-core and hollow-core photonic band gap fibers
J.P. Wooler, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, D.R. Gray, F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich, N.V. Wheeler, N. Baddela & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/WSOF.2013.W3.26
Type: conference
QAM Synthesis by Direct Modulation of Semiconductor Lasers under Injection Locking
Radan Slavík, J. Kakande, R. Phelan, J. O'Carroll, B. Kelly & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/NFOEC.2013.JTh2A.32
Type: conference
Recent advances in photonic bandgap fiber technology
Francesco Poletti, Natalie Wheeler, Naveen Baddela, Y. Jung, J.P. Wooler, D.R. Gray, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.R. Hayes, R. Slavík, S.-U. Alam, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, V.A.J.M. Sleiffer, M. Kuschnerov, M.N. Petrovich & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1109/PHOSST.2013.6614513
Type: conference