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Research project

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

Staff

Lead researchers

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 Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research
Connect with Jayanta

Email: jks@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research
Connect with Andy

Email: wac@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications
Connect with Michalis

Email: mnz@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

Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics
Connect with Johan

Email: jn@orc.soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Controlling the handedness of directly excited Laguerre-Gaussian modes in a solid-state laser
Di Lin, J.M.O. Daniel & W.A. Clarkson, 2014, Optics Letters, 39(13), 3903-3906
DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.003903
Type: article
Radiation-hardened Erbium doped LMA fiber with AlP composition from solution doping process
G. Canat, J.K.S. Sahu, J. Le Gouet, L. Lombard, Johan Nilsson, S. Duzelier, D. Boivin & W. Renard, 2014
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.JTu4A.68
Type: conference
ICAN as a new laser paradigm for high energy, high average power femtosecond pulses
W.S. Brocklesby, J. Nilsson, T. Schreiber, J. Limpert, A. Brignon, J. Bourderionnet, L. Lombard, V. Michau, M. Hanna, Y. Zaouter, T. Tajima & Gérard Mourou, 2014, European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 223(6), 1189-1195
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2014-02172-4
Type: article
Direct generation of radially-polarized output from an Yb-doped fiber laser
Di Lin, J.M.O. Daniel, M. Gecevičius, M. Beresna, P.G. Kazansky & W.A. Clarkson, 2014
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.JW2A.22
Type: conference
Fabrication and demonstration of nanomechanical optical fibers
Z. Lian, M. Segura, Nina Podoliak, X. Feng, W.H. Loh, P. Horak & F. Poletti, 2014
DOI: 10.1364/FBTA.2014.FF3E.2
Type: conference
Leakage channel fibers with microstructured cladding elements: a unique LMA platform
Sonali Dasgupta, John R. Hayes & David J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(7), 8574-8584
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.008574
Type: article
835 nm fiber Raman laser pulse pumped by a multimode laser diode at 806 nm
Tianfu Yao & Johan Nilsson, 2014, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 31(4), 882-888
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.000882
Type: article