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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

Novel polarization-assisted phase sensitive optical signal processor requiring low nonlinear phase shifts
F. Parmigiani, G. Hesketh, R. Slavík, P. Horak, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2014
Type: conference
Thermally-stimulated emission analysis of bismuth-doped silica fibers
S. Jain, J.B. Duchez, Y. Mebrouk, M. Núñez-Velázquez, F. Mady, B. Dussardier, M. Benabdesselam & J.K. Sahu, 2014, Optical Materials, 4(7), 1361-1366
DOI: 10.1364/OME.4.001361
Type: article
Gamma irradiation of minimal latency Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres
L. Olanterä, C. Sigaud, J. Troska, F. Vasey, M.N. Petrovich, F. Poletti, N.V. Wheeler, J.P. Wooler & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Journal of Instrumentation, 8
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/12/C12010
Type: article
All-fiber, ultra-wideband tunable laser at 2µm
Z. Li, S.U. Alam, Y. Jung, A.M. Heidt & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Optics Letters, 38(22), 4739-4742
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.004739
Type: article
Diode-pumped wideband thulium-doped fiber amplifiers for optical communications in the 1800 - 2050 nm window
Z. Li, A.M. Heidt, N. Simakov, Y. Jung, J.M.O. Daniel, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Optics Express, 21(22), 26450-26455
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.026450
Type: article