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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

Data transmission over 1km HC-PBGF arranged with microstructured fiber spliced to both itself and SMF
J.P. Wooler, F. Parmigiani, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, N.V. Wheeler, D.R. Gray, F. Poletti, M.N. Petrovich & D.J. Richardson, 2013
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.1359
Type: conference
Demonstration of amplified data transmission at 2 µm in a low-loss wide bandwidth hollow core photonic bandgap fiber
M.N. Petrovich, F. Poletti, J.P. Wooler, A.M. Heidt, N.K. Baddela, Zhihong Li, D.R. Gray, R. Slavík, F. Parmigiani, N.V. Wheeler, John Hayes, Eric Numkam Fokoua, L. Grüner-Nielsen, B. Pálsdóttir, R. Phelan, B. Kelly, J. O'Carroll, M. Becker, N. MacSuibhne, J. Zhao, F.C. Garcia Gunning, A.D. Ellis, P. Petropoulos, S.U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2013, Optics Express, 21(23), 28559-28569
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.028559
Type: article
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