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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

Fast and broadband fiber dispersion measurement with dense wavelength sampling
Giorgio M. Ponzo, Marco N. Petrovich, Xian Feng, Peter Horak, Francesco Poletti, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(1), 943-953
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000943
Type: article
Design of dual-core optical fibers with NEMS functionality
Nina Podoliak, Zhenggang Lian, Wei H. Loh & Peter Horak, 2014, Optics Express, 22(1), 1065-1076
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.001065
Type: article
Electrical current-driven dual-core optical fiber with embedded metal electrodes
Z. Lian, M. Segura, Nina Podoliak, X. Feng, N.M. White, Peter Horak & W.H. Loh, 2014
Type: conference
Electrostatic actuation of nanomechanical optical fibres with integrated electrodes
Nina Podoliak, Zhenggang Lian, Martha Segura, W.H. Loh & P. Horak, 2014
DOI: 10.1117/12.2051215
Type: conference
Fabrication of multiple parallel suspended-core optical fibers by sheet-stacking
Jindan Shi, Xian Feng, Zhenggang Lian, Nicholas White, Wei Loh, Francesco Poletti & Peter Horak, 2014, Optical Fiber Technology, 20(4), 395-402
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2014.04.006
Type: article