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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

Erbium-doped multi-element fiber amplifiers for space-division multiplexing operations
S. Jain, T.C. May-Smith, A. Dhar, A.S. Webb, M. Belal, D.J. Richardson, J.K. Sahu & D.N. Payne, 2013, Optics Letters, 38(4), 582-584
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.000582
Type: article
35 kW peak power picosecond pulsed thulium-doped fibre amplifier system seeded by a gain-switched laser diode at 2 microns
A.M. Heidt, Z. Li, J.K. Sahu, P.C. Shardlow, M. Becker, M. Rothhardt, M. Ibsen, R. Phelan, B. Kelly, S.-U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2013
Type: conference
A first glance at coherent optical transmission using photonic bandgap fiber as a transmission medium
V.A.J.M. Sleiffer, Y. Jung, P. Leoni, M. Kuschnerov, V. Veljanovski, N.V. Wheeler, N. Baddela, J.R. Hayes, J.P. Wooler, Eric Numkam Fokoua, R. Slavík, F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich, S.-U. Alam, D.J. Richardson & H. de Waardt, 2013
DOI: 10.1109/PHOSST.2013.6614548
Type: conference
A sheet-stacking technique for making multiple air-suspended-core optical fibres
Jindan Shi, X. Feng, Z.G. Lian, N.M. White, P. Horak & W.H. Loh, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/WSOF.2013.T1.2
Type: conference
Advances in photonic bandgap fiber technology for optical communications
D.J. Richardson, N.V. Wheeler, N.K. Baddela, J.R. Hayes, Yong Chen, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, D. Gray, J.P. Wooler, Y. Jung, S.-U. Alam, V.A.J.M. Sleiffer, M. Kuschnerov, M.N. Petrovich & F. Poletti, 2013
Type: conference