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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

Full quadrature regeneration of QPSK signals using sequential phase sensitive amplification and parametric saturation
Kyle Bottrill, Graham Hesketh, Liam Jones, Francesca Parmigiani, David Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2017, Optics Express, 25(2), 696-705
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.000696
Type: article
Optical Orbital Angular Momentum Amplifier based on an Air-Hole Erbium Doped Fiber
Yongmin Jung, Qiongyue Kang, Seongwoo Yoo, Raghuraman Sidharthan, Daryl Ho, Siddharth Ramachandran, Shaif-ul Alam & David Richardson, 2017, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 1-1
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2017.2651145
Type: article
Inter-modal four-wave mixing study in a two-mode fiber
Søren Friis, Ioannis Begleris, Yongmin Jung, Karsten Rottwick, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson, Peter Horak & Francesca Parmigiani, 2016, Optics Express, 24(26), 30338-30349
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.030338
Type: article
Amplifier and laser demonstrations in Bi-doped silica optical fibers
Jayanta Sahu, Naresh Thipparapu, Andrey Umnikov, Pranabesh Barua & Martin Núñez-Velázquez, 2016
Type: conference
Broadband high birefringence and polarizing hollow core antiresonant fibers
Seyed Mohammad Abokhamis Mousavi, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, David J. Richardson & Francesco Poletti, 2016, Optics Express, 24(2), 22943-22958
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.022943
Type: article