Research project

The Photonic Hyperhighway

Lead researcher:

Professor Sir David Payne
Other researchers:

Professor David Richardson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Sir David Payne KBE CBE FRS FREng

Professor of Photonics

Research interests

Many and varied across photonics, particularly in optical fibre design and fabrication, optical materials, optical sensing, and high-power fibre lasers.

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 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

Recent advances in Bi-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers

Jayanta Sahu, Naresh Thipparapu, Andrey Umnikov & Pranabesh Barua, 2016

Type: conference

High gain holmium-doped fibre amplifiers

Nikita Simakov, Zhihong Li, Yongmin Jung, Jae M.O. Daniel, Pranabesh Barua, Peter C. Shardlow, Sijing Liang, Jayanta K. Sahu, Alexander Hemming, W. Andrew Clarkson, Shaif-ul Alam & David J. Richardson, 2016, Optics Express, 24(13), 13946-13956

DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.013946

Type: article

Applications of nonlinear parametric effects for advanced processing of optical signals

Periklis Petropoulos, Kyle Bottrill, Francesca Parmigiani, Graham Hesketh, Liam Jones & David Richardson, 2016

DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.STh4F.1

Type: conference

Exploiting the short wavelength gain of silica-based thulium-doped fiber amplifiers

Z. Li, Y. Jung, J.M.O. Daniel, N. Simakov, M. Tokurakawa, P.C. Shardlow, D. Jain, J.K. Sahu, A.M. Heidt, W.A. Clarkson, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2016, Optics Letters, 41(10), 2197-2200

DOI: 10.1364/OL.41.002197

Type: article