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Research project

The Photonic Hyperhighway

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 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

Research outputs

Combined structural and optical modelling tool to optimise design and fabrication of hollow core photonic band gap fibres
G. Jasion, Eric Numkam Fokoua, John S. Shrimpton, David J. Richardson & Francesco Poletti, 2015
Type: conference
A fiberized highly birefringent glass micrometer-size ridge waveguide
Jindan Shi, Xian Feng, Peter Horak & Francesco Poletti, 2015, Optical Fiber Technology, 23, 137-144
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2015.04.001
Type: article
1120 nm diode-pumped Bi-doped fiber amplifier
Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, Saurabh Jain, Andrey Umnikov, Pranabesh Barua & Jayanta Sahu, 2015, Optics Letters, 40(10), 2441-2444
DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.002441
Type: article
Inspection of defect-induced mode coupling in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers using time-of-flight
N.H.L. Wong, S.R. Sandoghchi, Y. Jung, T. Bradley, N.V. Wheeler, N.K. Baddela, J.R. Hayes, F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich, S.U. Alam, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2015
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2015.STu1N.6
Type: conference
Archon: a function programmable optical interconnect architecture for transparent intra and inter data center SDM/TDM/WDM networking
Shuangyi Yan, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Victor Rancaño, Yi Shu, George M. Saridis, Bijan Rahimzadeh Rofoee, Yan Yan, Adaranijo Peters, Saurabh Jain, Timothy May-Smith, Periklis Petropoulos, David J. Richardson, Georgios Zervas & Dimitra Simeonidou, 2015, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33(8), 1586-1595
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2392554
Type: article
Demonstration of space-to-wavelength conversion in SDM networks
Victor Rancaño, Saurabh Jain, Timothy May-Smith, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Shuangyi Yan, George Zervas, Dimitra Simeonidou, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2015, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27(8), 828-831
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2015.2393435
Type: article
Polarization-assisted phase-sensitive processor
Francesca Parmigiani, Graham Hesketh, Radan Slavík, Peter Horak, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2015, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33(6), 1166-1174
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2385598
Type: article