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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

Ultraflat mid-IR supercontinuum pumped by a 100 kW diode-seeded picosecond fiber amplifier system at 2 microns
A.M. Heidt, J.H.V. Price, C. Baskiotis, Z. Li, S.-U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2013
Type: conference
Unleashing the spatial domain in optical fiber communications
D.J. Richardson, 2013
Type: conference
Nanomechanical optical fiber
Zhenggang Lian, Peter Horak, Xian Feng, Limin Xiao, Ken Frampton, Nicholas White, John A. Tucknott, Harvey Rutt, David N. Payne, Will Stewart & Wei H. Loh, 2012, Optics Express, 20(28), 29386-29394
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029386
Type: article
Phase regeneration of DPSK signals in a highly nonlinear lead-silicate W-type fiber
Mohamed Ettabib, Francesca Parmigiani, Xian Feng, Liam Jones, Joseph Kakande, Radan Slavík, Francesco Poletti, Giorgio M. Ponzo, Jindan Shi, Marco N. Petrovich, Wei H. Loh, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2012, Optics Express, 20(24), 27419-27424
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027419
Type: article
Analysis of light scattering from surface roughness in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers
Eric Numkam Fokoua, Francesco Poletti & David J. Richardson, 2012, Optics Express, 20(19), 20980-20991
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020980
Type: article
Development of low loss, wide bandwidth hollow core photonic bandgap fibres for telecom applications
M.N. Petrovich, N.V. Wheeler, R. Slavík, F. Poletti, N.K. Baddela, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.R. Hayes & D.J. Richardson, 2012
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253894
Type: conference
Packet compression of complex modulation formats based on coherent optical superposition
Francesca Parmigiani, Joseph Kakande, Liam Jones, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2012
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254383
Type: conference