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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

Electrostatic control of dual-core optical fibre with NEMS functionality
Nina Podoliak, Z. Lian, P. Horak & W.H. Loh, 2013
Type: conference
Emerging fibers and amplifiers for next generation communications and laser applications
D.J. Richardson, 2013
Type: conference
Field trial experiment over 1200 km on a 100GHz grid-aligned multi-channel black-box wavelength converter
V.J.F. Rancaño, F. Parmigiani, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2013.OTh1C.2
Type: conference
First demonstration of a broadband 37-cell hollow core photonic bandgap fiber and its application to high capacity mode division multiplexing
Y. Jung, V.A.J.M. Sleiffer, N. Baddela, M.N. Petrovich, J.R. Hayes, N.V. Wheeler, D.R. Gray, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.P. Wooler, N.H.L. Wong, F. Parmigiani, S.-U. Alam, J. Surof, M. Kuschnerov, V. Veljanovski, H. de Waardt, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2013.PDP5A.3
Type: conference
First demonstration of a low loss 37-cell hollow core photonic bandgap fiber and its use for data transmission
N.K. Baddela, M.N. Petrovich, Y. Jung, J.R. Hayes, N.V. Wheeler, D.R. Gray, N.H.L. Wong, F. Parmigiani, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.P. Wooler, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2013.CTu2K.3
Type: conference
First demonstration of an amplified transmission line based on multi-element fibre technology
V.J.F. Rancaño, S. Jain, T.C. May-Smith, J.K. Sahu, P. Petropoulos & D.J. Richardson, 2013
Type: conference
Hollow core fibres for high capacity data transmission
F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich, N.V. Wheeler, N.K. Baddela, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.P. Wooler, David R. Gray, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, J.R. Hayes, Y. Jung, R. Slavík, S.-U. Alam, V.A.J.M. Sleiffer, M. Kuschnerov & D.J. Richardson, 2013
Type: conference