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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

All-optical regeneration based on phase sensitive amplification
R. Slavík, J. Kakande, F. Parmigiani, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2011
Type: conference
Continuously tunable optical buffer with a dual silicon waveguide design
Peter Horak, Will Stewart & Wei H. Loh, 2011, Optics Express, 19(13), 12456-12461
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012456
Type: article
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, Periklis Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2011
Type: conference
Phase-encoded signal regeneration exploiting phase sensitive amplification
D.J. Richardson, R. Slavík, J. Kakande, F. Parmigiani, A. Bogris, D. Syvridis & P. Petropoulos, 2011
Type: conference