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

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

S2 measurement of higher order mode content in low loss hypocycloid Kagomé hollow core photonic crystal fiber

Thomas Bradley, Natalie V. Wheeler, G. Jasion, David Gray, John Hayes, Marcelo Botelho Alonso Gouveia, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Yong Chen, Francesco Poletti, Marco Petrovich & David Richardson, 2016

DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.STu4P.8

Type: conference

Detailed phase matching characterization of inter-modal four-wave mixing in a two-mode fiber

Søren M. Friis, Yongmin Jung, Ioannis Begleris, Peter Horak, Karsten Rottwitt, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson & Francesca Parmigiani, 2016

DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2016.JTu5A.49

Type: conference

First demonstration of low loss, bend insensitive 37-cell hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber at 1µm for high power delivery applications

Yong Chen, Hans Christian Mulvad, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Thomas Bradley, John Hayes, Natalie Wheeler, G. Jasion, Shaif-ul Alam, Francesco Poletti, Marco Petrovich & David Richardson, 2016

DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.STu4P.1

Type: conference

Polarization insensitive wavelength conversion in a low-birefringence SiGe waveguide

Mohamed Ettabib, Alexandros Kapsalis, Adonis Bogris, Francesca Parmigiani, Victor F. Rancaño, Kyle Bottrill, Mickael Brun, Pierre Labeye, Sergio Nicoletti, Kamal Hammani, Dimitris Syvridis, David Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2016, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 28(11), 1221 - 1224

DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2016.2533610

Type: article

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