Research project

The Photonic Hyperhighway

Lead researchers:

Professor Sir David Payne
Other researchers:

Professor David Richardson
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 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

Homodyne OFDM with optical injection locking for carrier recovery

Zhixin Liu, Joon-Young Kim, David S. Wu, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2015, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33(1), 34-41

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2369994

Type: article

Modulator-free quadrature amplitude modulation signal synthesis

Zhixin Liu, Joseph Kakande, Brian Kelly, John O’Carroll, Richard Phelan, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2014, Nature Communications, 5

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6911

Type: article

Cladding pumped few-mode EDFA for mode division multiplexed transmission

Y. Jung, E.L. Lim, Q. Kang, T.C. May-Smith, N.H.L. Wong, R. Standish, F. Poletti, J.K. Sahu, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(23), 29008-29013

DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.029008

Type: article

Few-mode multi-element fiber amplifier for mode division multiplexing

S. Jain, Y. Jung, T. May-Smith, S.U. Alam, J.K. Sahu & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(23), 29031-29036

DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.029031

Type: article

X-ray tomography for structural analysis of microstructured and multimaterial optical fibers and preforms

S.R. Sandoghchi, G. Jasion, N.V. Wheeler, S. Jain, Z. Lian, J.P. Wooler, R.P. Boardman, N. Baddela, Y. Chen, J. Hayes, E. Numkam Fokoua, T. Bradley, D.R. Gray, S.M. Abokhamis Mousavi, M. Petrovich, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(21), 26181-26192

DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.026181

Type: article

Suppression of gain variation in a PSA-based phase regenerator using an additional harmonic

K. Bottrill, Graham D. Hesketh, Francesca Parmigiani, Peter Horak, David J. Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2014, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26(20), 2074-2077

DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2347198

Type: article

Optical phase quantizer based on phase sensitive four wave mixing at low nonlinear phase shifts

Francesca Parmigiani, Graham Hesketh, Radan Slavík, Peter Horak, Periklis Petropoulos & David Richardson, 2014, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26(21), 2146-2149

DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2349033

Type: article