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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

Broadband silica-based thulium doped fiber amplifier employing multi-wavelength pumping
Junjia Wang, Sijing Liang, Yongmin Jung, Qiongyue Kang, Shaif-ul Alam & David J. Richardson, 2016, Optics Express, 24(20), 23001-23008
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.023001
Type: article
Bi-doped fiber amplifiers: optical properties, challenges and applications
Naresh Thipparapu, Andrey Umnikov, Pranabesh Barua, Martin Núñez-Velázquez & Jayanta Sahu, 2016
Type: conference
All-optical phase regeneration with record PSA extinction ratio in a low-birefringence silicon germanium waveguide
Mohamed Ettabib, Kyle Bottrill, Francesca Parmigiani, Alexandros Kapsalis, Adonis Bogris, Mickael Brun, Pierre Labeye, Sergio Nicoletti, Kamal Hammani, Dimitris Syvridis, David Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2016, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(17), 3993-3998
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2587694
Type: article
Minimizing inter-channel cross-phase modulation with optical phase conjugation in asymmetric fibre links
Graham D. Hesketh & Periklis Petropoulos, 2016, Optics Express, 24(18), 20270-20280
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.020270
Type: article
A review on our latest amplifier and laser demonstrations by Bi-doped fibers
Naresh Thipparapu, Andrey Umnikov, Pranabesh Barua, Martin Núñez-Velázquez & Jayanta Sahu, 2016
Type: conference