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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: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

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

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Multi-channel all-optical signal processing based on parametric effects
Periklis Petropoulos, Francesca Parmigiani, Kyle Bottrill, Satoshi Yoshima, Yujia Sun & David Richardson, 2016
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.W4D.3
Type: conference
New optical fibres for high-capacity optical communications
D.J. Richardson, 2016, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 374(2062)
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0441
Type: article
Optimisation of amplitude limiters for phase preservation based on the exact solution to degenerate four-wave mixing
K.R.H. Bottrill, G. Hesketh, F. Parmigiani, D.J. Richardson & P. Petropoulos, 2016, Optics Express, 24(3), 2774-2787
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.002774
Type: article
Phase regeneration of QPSK signal in SOA using single-stage, wavelength converting PSA
Kyle Bottrill, R. Kakarla, F. Parmigiani, D. Venkitesh & P. Petropoulos, 2016, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 28(2), 205-208
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2015.2489843
Type: article
Applications of nonlinear parametric effects for advanced processing of optical signals
Periklis Petropoulos, Kyle Bottrill, Francesca Parmigiani, Graham Hesketh, Liam Jones & David Richardson, 2016
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.STh4F.1
Type: conference