Research project

EPSRC - Novel Technique For Fabrication Of Large Core, High Rare Earth Concentration, Photodarkening Resistant Fibres For High Power Fibre Laser Applications

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Professor David Richardson
Other researchers:

Professor Jayanta Sahu,

Professor Johan Nilsson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

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

Other researchers

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

Connect with Jayanta

Email: jks@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics

Connect with Johan

Email: jn@orc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

High Power Fibre Lasers

The High Power Fibre Laser group, led by Professor Johan Nilsson, works on advanced fibre lasers for beam combination and sensing for lidar and net-zero aviation (pollution monitoring).

Research outputs

Pump power depreciation by photodarkening in ytterbium-doped fibers and amplifiers

Nanxi Li, Seongwoo Yoo, Xia Yu, Deepak Jain & Jayanta K. Sahu, 2014, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26(2), 115-118

DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2289965

Type: article

Optical fiber fabrication using novel gas-phase deposition technique

A.J. Boyland, A.S. Webb, S. Yoo, F.H. Mountfort, M.P. Kalita, R.J. Standish, J.K. Sahu, D.J. Richardson & D.N. Payne, 2011, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 29(6), 912-915

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2109371

Type: article

Rare earth doped optical fiber fabrication using novel gas phase deposition technique

A.J. Boyland, A.S. Webb, M.P. Kalita, S. Yoo, C.A. Codemard, R.J. Standish, J. Nilsson & J.K. Sahu, 2010

DOI: 10.1364/CLEO.2010.CThV7

Type: conference

Multi-watts narrow-linewidth all fiber Yb-doped laser operating at 1179 nm

M.P. Kalita, S.-U. Alam, C. Codemard, S. Yoo, A.J. Boyland, M. Ibsen & J.K. Sahu, 2010, Optics Express, 18(6), 5920-5925

DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005920

Type: article

Measurement of photodarkening in Yb-doped aluminosilicate fibres at elevated temperature

S. Yoo, A.J. Boyland, R.J. Standish & J.K. Sahu, 2010, Electronics Letters, 46(3), 233-234

DOI: 10.1049/el.2010.2517

Type: article