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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

Progress towards efficient Bi fiber lasers and amplifiers
Jayanta Sahu, Naresh Thipparapu, Andrey Umnikov & Pranabesh Barua, 2016
Type: conference
Wavelength conversion technique for optical frequency dissemination applications
Joonyoung Kim, Giuseppe Marra, David Wu, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2016, Optics Letters, 41(8), 1716-1719
DOI: 10.1364/OL.41.001716
Type: article
Bi-doped fiber amplifier with a flat gain of 25dB operating in the wavelength band 1320-1360nm
Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, A.A. Umnikov, P. Barua & J.K. Sahu, 2016, Optics Letters, 41(7), 1518-1521
DOI: 10.1364/OL.41.001518
Type: article
High capacity, low latency data transmission using hollow core photonic bandgap fibers
Natalie Wheeler, Yong Chen, John Hayes, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, G. Jasion, Thomas Bradley, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Naveen Baddela, David Gray, Zhixin Liu, Yongmin Jung, Shaif-ul Alam, Radan Slavík, Francesco Poletti, Marco Petrovich & David J. Richardson, 2016
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.Th4E.1
Type: conference
FWM-based amplitude limiter realizing phase preservation through cancellation of SPM distortions
Kyle Bottrill, Francesca Parmigiani, David Richardson & Periklis Petropoulos, 2016
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.W4D.6
Type: conference
Silica-based thulium doped fiber amplifiers for wavelengths beyond the L-band
Yongmin Jung, Nikita Simakov, Jae Daniel, Deepak Jain, Peter Shardlow, Alexander Heidt, Jayanta Sahu, A Hemming, William Clarkson, Shaif-ul Alam & David Richardson, 2016
Type: conference
Communication networks beyond the capacity crunch
A.D. Ellis, N. MacSuibhne, D. Saad & D.N. Payne, 2016, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 374(2062), 1-12
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0191
Type: article