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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

First demonstration of 2 micron data transmission in a low-loss hollow core photonic bandgap fiber
M.N. Petrovich, F. Poletti, J.P. Wooler, A.M. Heidt, N.K. Baddela, Zhihong Li, D.R. Gray, R. Slavík, F. Parmigiani, N.V. Wheeler, J.R. Hayes, Eric Numkam Fokoua, L. Grüner-Nielsen, B. Pálsdóttir, R. Phelan, B. Kelly, M. Becker, N. MacSuibhne, J. Zhao, F.C. Garcia Gunning, A.D. Ellis, P. Petropoulos, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2012
DOI: 10.1364/ECEOC.2012.Th.3.A.5
Type: conference
Modulation format conversion employing coherent optical superposition
Francesca Parmigiani, Liam Jones, Joseph Kakande, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2012, Optics Express, 20(26), B322-B330
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00B322
Type: article
Temporal multiplexing of complex modulation formats facilitated by their coherent optical superposition
F. Parmigiani, J. Kakande, L.M. Jones, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2012
DOI: 10.1364/ECEOC.2012.We.3.E.2
Type: conference
Gridless optical networking field trial: flexible spectrum switching, defragmentation and transport of 10G/40G/100G/555G over 620-km field fiber
N. Amaya, M. Irfan, G. Zervas, K. Banias, M. Garrich, I. Henning, D. Simeonidou, Y.R. Zhou, A. Lord, K. Smith, V.J.F. Rancaño, S. Liu, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2011, Optics Express, 19(26), B277-B282
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B277
Type: article
Multilevel quantization of optical phase in a novel coherent parametric mixer architecture
Joseph Kakande, Radan Slavík, Francesca Parmigiani, Adonis Bogris, Dimitris Syvridis, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Richard Phelan, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2011, Nature Photonics, 5, 748-752
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.254
Type: article