Research project

The Photonic Hyperhighway

Lead researcher:

Professor Sir David Payne
Other researchers:

Professor David Richardson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

100kW peak power picosecond thulium-doped fiber amplifier system seeded by a gain-switched diode laser at 2µm

A.M. Heidt, Z. Li, J. Sahu, P.C. Shardlow, M. Becker, M. Rothhardt, M. Ibsen, R. Phelan, B. Kelly, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Optics Letters, 38(10), 1615-1617

DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.001615

Type: article

Real-time prediction of structural and optical properties of hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers during fabrication

Eric Numkam Fokoua, Marco N. Petrovich, Naveen K. Baddela, Natalie V. Wheeler, John R. Hayes, Francesco Poletti & David J. Richardson, 2013, Optics Letters, 38(9), 1382-1384

DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.001382

Type: article

Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres

D.J. Richardson, J.M. Fini & L.E. Nelson, 2013, Nature Photonics, 7(5), 354-362

DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.94

Type: article

Thulium-doped fiber amplifier for optical communications at 2µm

Z. Li, A. Heidt, J.M.O. Daniel, Y. Jung, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Optics Express, 21(8), 9289-9297

DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.009289

Type: article

Chirp reduction and on-off contrast enhancement via optical injection locking and coherent carrier manipulation

R. Slavík, J. Kakande, R. Phelan, J. O'Carroll, B. Kelly & D.J. Richardson, 2013

DOI: 10.1117/12.2017230

Type: conference