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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

Recent progress in SDM amplifiers
Yongmin Jung, Qiongyue Kang, Saurabh Jain, Shaif-ul Alam & David Richardson, 2017
DOI: 10.1117/12.2252014
Type: conference
Wavelength conversion of complex modulation formats in a compact SiGe waveguide
Mohamed Ettabib, Cosimo Lacava, Zhixin Liu, Adonis Bogris, Alexandros Kapsalis, Mickael Brun, Pierre Labeye, Sergio Nicoletti, Dimitris Syvridis, David Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2017, Optics Express, 25(4), 3252-3258
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.003252
Type: article
Mitigation of nonlinear effects on WDM QAM signals enabled by optical phase conjugation with efficient bandwidth utilization
Satoshi Yoshima, Yujia Sun, Zhixin Liu, Kyle Bottrill, Francesca Parmigiani, David Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2017, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 35(4), 971-978
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2623740
Type: article
Optical predistortion enabling phase preservation in optical signal processing demonstrated in FWM-based amplitude limiter
Kyle Bottrill, Francesca Parmigiani, David Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2017, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 35(4), 963-970
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2604493
Type: article
Optoelectronic oscillator with low temperature induced frequency drift
Udara Mutugala, Joonyoung Kim, Thomas Bradley, Natalie Wheeler, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, John Hayes, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Francesco Poletti, Marco Petrovich, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2017
DOI: 10.1109/IPCon.2016.7831091
Type: conference