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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

Selective amplification of frequency comb modes via optical injection locking of a semiconductor laser: influence of adjacent unlocked comb modes
D.S. Wu, D.J. Richardson & R. Slavík, 2013
DOI: 10.1117/12.2017371
Type: conference
Towards high-capacity fibre-optic communications at the speed of light in vacuum
F. Poletti, N.V. Wheeler, M.N. Petrovich, N. Baddela, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.R. Hayes, D.R. Gray, Zhihong Li, R. Slavík & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Nature Photonics, 7(4), 279-284
DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2013.45
Type: article
Development of low loss, wide bandwidth hollow core photonic bandgap fibers
M.N. Petrovich, N.K. Baddela, N.V. Wheeler, Eric Numkam Fokoua, R. Slavík, David R. Gray, J.R. Hayes, J.P. Wooler, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2013.OTh1J.3
Type: conference
Predicting Structural and Optical Properties of Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fibers from Second Stage Preforms
Eric Numkam Fokoua, M.N. Petrovich, N.K. Baddela, N.V. Wheeler, J.R. Hayes, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2013.OTh1J.1
Type: conference
Robust low loss splicing of hollow core photonic bandgap fiber to itself
J.P. Wooler, D.R. Gray, F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich, N.V. Wheeler, F. Parmigiani & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2013.OM3I.5
Type: conference