Research project

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

Lead researchers:

Professor Sir David Payne
Other researchers:

Professor Jayanta Sahu,

Professor Andy Clarkson,

Professor Michalis Zervas,

Professor David Richardson,

Professor Johan Nilsson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

Fabrication of photonic crystals in rare-earth doped chalcogenide glass films for enhanced upconversion

M.E. Pollard, K.J. Knight, G.J. Parker, D.W. Hewak, M.D.B. Charlton, Shibin Jiang, Michel J.F. Digonnet & J. Christopher Dries, 2012

DOI: 10.1117/12.908014

Type: conference

First demonstration of 2 micron data transmission in a low-loss hollow core photonic bandgap fiber

M.N. Petrovich, F. Poletti, J.P. Wooler, A.M. Heidt, N.K. Baddela, Zhihong Li, D.R. Gray, R. Slavík, F. Parmigiani, N.V. Wheeler, J.R. Hayes, Eric Numkam Fokoua, L. Grüner-Nielsen, B. Pálsdóttir, R. Phelan, B. Kelly, M. Becker, N. MacSuibhne, J. Zhao, F.C. Garcia Gunning, A.D. Ellis, P. Petropoulos, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2012

DOI: 10.1364/ECEOC.2012.Th.3.A.5

Type: conference

High power fiber lasers: fundamentals and frontiers

Johan Nilsson, 2012

DOI: 10.1364/ASSP.2012.AT1A.1

Type: conference

Primed to remember

2012, Science, 336(6088), 1515-1516

DOI: 10.1126/science.1223365

Type: article

High-energy Q-switched operation of a fiber-laser-pumped Er:YAG laser

J.W. Kim, J.K. Sahu & W.A. Clarkson, 2011, Applied Physics B, 105(2), 263-267