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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

Mid-infrared ZBLAN fiber supercontinuum source using picosecond diode-pumping at 2 µm
A.M. Heidt, J.H.V. Price, C. Baskiotis, J.S. Feehan, Z. Li, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Optics Express, 21(20), 24281
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024281
Type: article
Demonstration of a 2 micron-OTDR
M. Belal, S.-U. Alam, J.K. Sahu, D.J. Richardson & T.P. Newson, 2013
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.1331
Type: conference
Fast and broadband fibre dispersion measurement with dense wavelength sampling
G.M. Ponzo, M.N. Petrovich, X. Feng, Peter Horak, F. Poletti, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.1383
Type: conference
Direct selection and amplification of individual narrowly spaced optical comb modes via injection locking: design and characterization
David S. Wu, Radan Slavík, Giuseppe Marra & David J. Richardson, 2013, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 31(14), 2287-2295
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2262921
Type: article
24 Gbit/s synthesis of BPSK signals via direct modulation of Fabry-Perot lasers under injection locking
Radan Slavík, J. Kakande, R. Phelan, J. O'Carroll, B. Kelly & D.J. Richardson, 2013
Type: conference