Research project

Table-Top Lasers

Research groups:

Nanophotonics Group
Other researchers:

Professor Robert Eason,

Professor David Richardson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

Connect with Robert

Email: rwe@orc.soton.ac.uk

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

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

High-beam-quality, watt-level, widely tunable, mid-infrared OP-GaAs optical parametric oscillator

Qiang Fu, Lin Xu, Sijing Liang, Peter Shardlow, David Shepherd, Shaif-Ul Alam & David Richardson, 2019, Optics Letters, 44(11), 2744-2747

DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.002744

Type: article

Thulium-fiber-laser-pumped, high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared orientation-patterned GaAs optical parametric generator and amplifier

Lin Xu, Qiang Fu, Sijing Liang, David Shepherd, David Richardson & Shaif-Ul Alam, 2017, Optics Letters, 42(19), 4036-4039

DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.004036

Type: article

Fiber-laser-pumped, high-energy, mid-IR, picosecond optical parametric oscillator with a high-harmonic cavity

L. Xu, Ho-Yin Chan, S.U. Alam, David J. Richardson & David P. Shepherd, 2015, Optics Letters, 40(14), 3288-3291

DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.003288

Type: article

High-energy, near- and mid-IR picosecond pulses generated by a fiber-MOPA-pumped optical parametric generator and amplifier

Lin Xu, Ho-Yin Chan, Shaif-ul Alam, David J. Richardson & David P. Shepherd, 2015, Optics Express, 23(10), 12613-12618

DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.012613

Type: article

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in suspended core tellurite microstructured optical fibers

M. Belal, L. Xu, P. Horak, L. Shen, X. Feng, M. Ettabib, D.J. Richardson, P. Petropoulos & J.H.V. Price, 2015, Optics Letters, 40(10), 2237-2240

DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.002237

Type: article