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Lead researcher

Professor Sir David Payne KBE CBE FRS FREng

Professor of Photonics

Research interests

  • Many and varied across photonics, particularly in optical fibre design and fabrication, optical materials, optical sensing, and high-power fibre lasers.
Other researchers

Professor Francesco Poletti

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres: design and fabrication
  • Optical Communications: high capacity and low latency
  • Novel active and passive optical fibres

Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Professor Martin Charlton

Prof of Photonics and Nano-Electronics

Professor Graham Reed FREng, FIET, FOSA, FSPIE, FEOS

Head of School

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Hollow Core Fibre

We are world-leaders in Hollow Core Optical Fibre research. Our ground-breaking fibres guide light at vacuum speeds and unprecedented intensities, enabling advances in telecoms, manufacturing, and sensing.

Nanophotonics Group

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

Optical Fibre Sensors and Devices

Our group develops a variety of innovative optical fibre devices and sensors.

Photonic Systems, Circuits and Sensors Group

Our group’s research in photonics is helping the development of critical global technologies.

Pulsed Fibre Lasers

We specialise in developing pulsed laser technology for use in medicine, defence, renewable energy, and manufacturing.

Silicon Photonics

The group works at the forefront of all aspects of silicon photonics. Our work ranges from fundamental study of devices and circuits to close collaboration with industry.

Sustainable Electronic Technologies

We explore how to improve renewable energy sources and create more efficient electronic device technology to benefit the environment.

Research outputs

Broadband mode scramblers for few-mode fibers based on 3D printed mechanically induced long-period fiber gratings
Xin Huang,
Yongmin Jung,
Yaping Liu,
Kerrianne Harrington,
& David J. Richardson
, 2022 , IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , 34 (3) , 169--172
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2022.3144370
Type: article
Controlled generation of picosecond-pulsed higher-order Poincaré sphere beams from an ytterbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier
Kunhao Ji,
Di Lin,
Ian A. Davidson,
Siyi Wang,
Joel Carpenter,
Yoshimichi Amma,
Yongmin Jung,
Massimiliano Guasoni,
& David J. Richardson
, 2022 , Photonics Research
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.475287
Type: article
Internal gas composition and pressure in As-drawn Hollow Core Optical Fibers
Shuichiro Rikimi,
Yong Chen,
Thomas W. Kelly,
Ian A. Davidson,
Gregory T. Jasion,
Matthew Partridge,
Kerrianne Harrington,
Thomas D. Bradley,
Austin A. Taranta,
Francesco Poletti,
Marco N. Petrovich,
David J. Richardson,
& Natalie V. Wheeler
, 2022 , IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology , 40 (14) , 4776--4785
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3164810
Type: article
Roadmap on multimode photonics
Ilaria Cristiani,
Cosimo Lacava,
Georg Rademacher,
Benjamin Puttnam,
Ruben Luis,
Cristian Antonelli,
Antonio Mecozzi,
Mark Shtaif,
Daniele Cozzolino,
Davide Bacco,
Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe,
Jian Wang,
Yongmin Jung,
David J. Richardson,
Siddharth Rmachandran,
Massimiliano Guasoni,
Katarzyna Krupa,
Denis Kharenko,
Alessandro Tonello,
Stefan Wabnitz,
David Phillips,
Daniele Faccio,
Tijmen Euser,
Shangran Xie,
Philip Russell,
Daoxin Dai,
Yu Yu,
Periklis Petropoulos,
Frederic Gardes,
& Francesca Parmigiani
, 2022 , Journal of Optics , 24 (8)
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac7a48
Type: article
Compact nano-void spectrometer based on a stable engineered scattering system
Qi Sun,
Przemyslaw Ludwik Falak,
Tom Vettenburg,
Timothy Lee,
David Phillips,
Gilberto Brambilla,
& Martynas Beresna
, 2022 , Photonics Research , 10 (10) , 2328--2336
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.465322
Type: article
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