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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

Cladding-pumped Er/Yb-doped multi-element fiber amplifier for wideband applications
Saurabh Jain, Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, Pranabesh Barua & Jayanta Kumar Sahu, 2015, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27(4), 356-358
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2374234
Type: article
Optical Fourier synthesis of high-repetition-rate pulses
David S. Wu, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2015, Optica, 2(1), 18-26
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.000018
Type: article
Phase regeneration of an M-PSK signal using partial regeneration of its M/2-PSK second phase harmonic
Liam Jones, Francesca Parmigiani, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2015, Optics Communications, 334, 35-40
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2014.07.063
Type: article
Fiber optical parametric amplifiers in optical communication systems
M.E. Marhic, P.A. Andrekson, P. Petropoulos, S. Radic, C. Peucheret & M. Zazayerifar, 2015, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 9(1), 50-74
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201400087
Type: article
FWM-based, idler-free phase quantiser with flexible operating power
Kyle Bottrill, L. Jones, F. Parmigiani, D.J. Richardson & P. Petropoulos, 2015
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2015.W4C.3
Type: conference
High-capacity directly modulated optical transmitter for 2µm spectral region
Zhixin Liu, Yong Chen, Zhihong Li, Brian Kelly, Richard Phelan, John O'Carroll, Tom Bradley, John Wooler, Natalie V. Wheeler, Alexander Heidt, Thomas Richter, Colja Schubert, Martin Becker, Francesco Poletti, Marco N. Petrovich, Shaif-ul Alam, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2015, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33(7), 1373-1379
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2397700
Type: article
Holmium-doped fiber amplifier for optical communications at 2.05 - 2.13 µm
N. Simakov, Z. Li, S.U. Alam, P.C. Shardlow, J.M.O. Daniel, D. Jain, J.K. Sahu, A. Hemming, W.A. Clarkson & D.J. Richardson, 2015
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2015.Tu2C.6
Type: conference