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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

First demonstration of a 2µm few-mode TDFA for mode division multiplexing
Y. Jung, P.C. Shardlow, M. Belal, Z. Li, A.M. Heidt, J.M.O. Daniel, D. Jain, J.K Sahu, W.A. Clarkson, B. Corbett, J. O'Callaghan, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(9), 10544-10549
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.010544
Type: article
First demonstration of all-optical programmable SDM/TDM intra data centre and WDM inter-DCN communication
S. Yan, E. Hugues-Salas, V.J.F. Rancaño, S. Yi, G. Saridis, B. Rofoee, Y. Yan, A. Peters, S. Jain, T. May-Smith, P. Petropoulos, D.J. Richardson, G. Zervas & D. Simeonidou, 2014
DOI: 10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964258
Type: conference
High-energy diode-seeded nanosecond 2µm fiber MOPA systems incorporating active pulse shaping
Z. Li, A.M. Heidt, P.S. Teh, M. Berendt, J.K. Sahu, R. Phelan, B. Kelly, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Letters, 39(6), 1569-1572
DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.001569
Type: article
Highly nonlinear tellurite glass fiber for broadband applications
M.A. Ettabib, K. Hammani, X. Feng, M. Belal, J.D. Shi, A. Bogris, A. Kapsalis, D. Syvridis, D.J. Richardson & P. Petropoulos, 2014
Type: conference
Nanomechanical optical fiber with embedded electrodes actuated by joule heating
Zhenggang Lian, Martha Segura, Nina Podoliak, Xian Feng, Nicholas White & Peter Horak, 2014, Materials, 7(8), 5591-5602
DOI: 10.3390/ma7085591
Type: article