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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

Dual hollow-core anti-resonant fibres
Natalie Wheeler, Thomas Bradley, John Hayes, G. Jasion, Yong Chen, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Peter Horak, Francesco Poletti, Marco Petrovich & David Richardson, 2016
DOI: 10.1117/12.2225589
Type: conference
Multi-channel phase regenerator based on polarization-assisted phase-sensitive amplification
Francesca Parmigiani, Kyle Bottrill, Radan Slavík, David J. Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2016, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 28(8), 845-848
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2016.2514605
Type: article
Progress towards efficient Bi fiber lasers and amplifiers
Jayanta Sahu, Naresh Thipparapu, Andrey Umnikov & Pranabesh Barua, 2016
Type: conference
Wavelength conversion technique for optical frequency dissemination applications
Joonyoung Kim, Giuseppe Marra, David Wu, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2016, Optics Letters, 41(8), 1716-1719
DOI: 10.1364/OL.41.001716
Type: article
Bi-doped fiber amplifier with a flat gain of 25dB operating in the wavelength band 1320-1360nm
Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, A.A. Umnikov, P. Barua & J.K. Sahu, 2016, Optics Letters, 41(7), 1518-1521
DOI: 10.1364/OL.41.001518
Type: article