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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

Spatial multiplexing: technology
Yongmin Jung, Qiongyue Kang, Shaif-Ul Alam & David Richardson, 2019
Type: bookChapter
O-band Bi-doped fibre amplifiers: Present and future
Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, Jayanta Sahu & David Payne, 2019, Asian Journal of Physics, 28(7-9), 475-486
Type: article
Bi-doped fiber amplifiers and lasers [Invited]
N. K. Thipparapu, Y. Wang, S. Wang, A. A. Umnikov, P. Barua & J. K. Sahu, 2019, Optical Materials Express, 9(6), 2446-2465
DOI: 10.1364/OME.9.002446
Type: article
32-core erbium/ytterbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier for next generation space-division multiplexed transmission system
Saurabh Jain, Carlos Castro, Yongmin Jung, John Hayes, Reza Sandoghchi, Takayuki Mizuno, Yusuke Sasaki, Yoshimichi Amma, Yutaka Miyamoto, Marc Bohn, Klaus Pulverer, Md Nooruzzaman, Toshio Morioka, Shaiful Alam & David J. Richardson, 2017, Optics Express, 25(26), 32887-32896
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.032887
Type: article
Numerical analysis of mode propagation and coupling in multimode fibers
Nicholas Heng Loong Wong, Yongmin Jung, Shaif-Ul Alam, Periklis Petropoulos & David Richardson, 2017
DOI: 10.1109/OECC.2017.8115029
Type: conference
Thulium-fiber-laser-pumped, high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared orientation-patterned GaAs optical parametric generator and amplifier
Lin Xu, Qiang Fu, Sijing Liang, David Shepherd, David Richardson & Shaif-Ul Alam, 2017, Optics Letters, 42(19), 4036-4039
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.004036
Type: article
All-optical mitigation of nonlinear effects in practical transmission links
Periklis Petropoulos, 2017
DOI: 10.1364/SPPCOM.2017.SpTu2F.1
Type: conference