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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

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
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