Research project

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

Lead researchers:

Professor Sir David Payne
Other researchers:

Professor Jayanta Sahu,

Professor Andy Clarkson,

Professor Michalis Zervas,

Professor David Richardson,

Professor Johan Nilsson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

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Other researchers

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

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Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research

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Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications

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Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

Hollow Core Optical Fibres
Optical Communications
High Power Fibre Lasers

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Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics

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Research outputs

Sub-microsecond pulsed pumping as a means of suppressing amplified spontaneous emission in tandem pumped fiber amplifiers

Andrew Malinowski, Jonathan Price & Michael Zervas, 2015, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 51(12), 1-8

DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2015.2501641

Type: article

High-power continuous-wave directly-diode-pumped fiber Raman lasers

Tianfu Yao, Harish Achar Vasant, Jayanta Sahu & Johan Nilsson, 2015, Applied Sciences, 5(4), 1323-1336

DOI: 10.3390/app5041323

Type: article

Mode area scalability in rectangular core fiber

S. Yoo, J. Ji, X. Wu, S. Raghurman, D. Ho, N. Xia, J. Sahu & J. Nilsson, 2015

DOI: 10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323543

Type: conference

Ultralow thermal sensitivity of phase and propagation delay in hollow core optical fibres

Radan Slavík, Giuseppe Marra, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Naveen Baddela, Natalie V. Wheeler, Marco Petrovich, Francesco Poletti & David J. Richardson, 2015, Scientific Reports, 5

DOI: 10.1038/srep15447

Type: article

Optical side scattering radiometry for high resolution, wide dynamic range longitudinal assessment of optical fibers

S.R. Sandoghchi, M.N. Petrovich, D.R. Gray, Y. Chen, N.V. Wheeler, T.D. Bradley, N.H.L. Wong, G. Jasion, J.R. Hayes, E. Numkam Fokoua, M. Botelho Alonso Gouveia, S.M. Abokhamis Mousavi, D.J. Richardson & F. Poletti, 2015, Optics Express, 23(21), 27960-27974

DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.027960

Type: article