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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

Development of large core hollow core photonic bandgap fibres for telecommunications applications
M.N. Petrovich, N.K. Baddela, S.R. Sandoghchi, N.V. Wheeler, J.R. Hayes, Y. Jung, E. Numkam Fokoua, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2014
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876526
Type: conference
Wideband multi-element Er-doped fiber amplifier
Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, S. Jain, T.C. May-Smith & J.K. Sahu, 2014, Laser Physics Letters, 11(9)
DOI: 10.1088/1612-2011/11/9/095104
Type: article
Advanced implementations of phase sensitive amplifiers
F. Parmigiani, G. Hesketh, Kyle Bottrill, R. Slavík, P. Horak, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2014
DOI: 10.1109/SUM.2014.51
Type: conference
Novel geometry fibres for use in optical communications and high power lasers
J.K. Sahu, S. Jain, D. Jain, N.K. Thipparapu & T. May-Smith, 2014
Type: conference
Space division multiplexing using multi-element fibers
V.J.F. Rancaño, S. Jain, T.C. May-Smith, J.K. Sahu, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2014
DOI: 10.1109/SUM.2014.101
Type: conference
Reconfigurable modal gain control of a few-mode EDFA supporting six spatial modes
Y. Jung, Q. Kang, J.K. Sahu, B. Corbett, J. O'Callaghan, F. Poletti, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2014, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26(11), 1100-1103
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2315500
Type: article
Fabrication and demonstration of nanomechanical optical fibers
Z. Lian, M. Segura, Nina Podoliak, X. Feng, W.H. Loh, P. Horak & F. Poletti, 2014
DOI: 10.1364/FBTA.2014.FF3E.2
Type: conference