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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

Demonstration of space-to-wavelength conversion in SDM networks
Victor Rancaño, Saurabh Jain, Timothy May-Smith, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Shuangyi Yan, George Zervas, Dimitra Simeonidou, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2015, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27(8), 828-831
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2015.2393435
Type: article
Polarization-assisted phase-sensitive processor
Francesca Parmigiani, Graham Hesketh, Radan Slavík, Peter Horak, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2015, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33(6), 1166-1174
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2385598
Type: article
Cladding-pumped Er/Yb-doped multi-element fiber amplifier for wideband applications
Saurabh Jain, Naresh Kumar Thipparapu, Pranabesh Barua & Jayanta Kumar Sahu, 2015, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27(4), 356-358
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2374234
Type: article
Optical Fourier synthesis of high-repetition-rate pulses
David S. Wu, David J. Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2015, Optica, 2(1), 18-26
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.000018
Type: article
Phase regeneration of an M-PSK signal using partial regeneration of its M/2-PSK second phase harmonic
Liam Jones, Francesca Parmigiani, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2015, Optics Communications, 334, 35-40
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2014.07.063
Type: article