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Research project

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

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: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Email: [email protected]

Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research
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Email: [email protected]

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications
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Email: [email protected]

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers
Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics
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Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Point-by-point femtosecond laser micro-processing of independent core-specific fiber Bragg gratings in a multi-core fiber
A. Donko, M. Beresna, Y. Jung, J. Hayes, D. J. Richardson & G. Brambilla, 2018, Optics Express, 26(2), 2039-2044
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.002039
Type: article
Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption
Angelos Xomalis, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Eric Plum, Yongmin Jung, Venkatram Nalla, Cosimo Lacava, Kevin F. MacDonald, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson & Nikolai Zheludev, 2018, Nature Communications, 9
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02434-y
Type: article
Enabling component technologies for space division multiplexing
Yongmin Jung, Shaif-Ul Alam & David Richardson, 2018
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2018.M4D.3
Type: conference
Picosecond all-optical switching and dark pulse generation in a fibre-optic network using a plasmonic metamaterial absorber
Angelos Xomalis, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Yongmin Jung, Eric Plum, Cosimo Lacava, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson & Nikolai Zheludev, 2018, Applied Physics Letters, 113, 1-5
DOI: 10.1063/1.5040829
Type: letterEditorial
Cathedral outreach: student-led workshops for school curriculum enhancement in non-traditional environments
Matthew Posner, Alexander Jantzen, Lieke Van Putten, Andrea Ravagli, Andrei, Laszlo Donko, Nathan Soper, Nicholas, Heng Loong Wong & Pearl John, 2017
DOI: 10.1117/12.2266451
Type: conference