Research project

The Photonic Hyperhighway

Lead researchers:

Professor Sir David Payne
Other researchers:

Professor David Richardson
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

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

Nanomechanical optical fiber

Zhenggang Lian, Peter Horak, Xian Feng, Limin Xiao, Ken Frampton, Nicholas White, John A. Tucknott, Harvey Rutt, David N. Payne, Will Stewart & Wei H. Loh, 2012, Optics Express, 20(28), 29386-29394

DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029386

Type: article

Phase regeneration of DPSK signals in a highly nonlinear lead-silicate W-type fiber

Mohamed Ettabib, Francesca Parmigiani, Xian Feng, Liam Jones, Joseph Kakande, Radan Slavík, Francesco Poletti, Giorgio M. Ponzo, Jindan Shi, Marco N. Petrovich, Wei H. Loh, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2012, Optics Express, 20(24), 27419-27424

DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027419

Type: article

Analysis of light scattering from surface roughness in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

Eric Numkam Fokoua, Francesco Poletti & David J. Richardson, 2012, Optics Express, 20(19), 20980-20991

DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020980

Type: article

Development of low loss, wide bandwidth hollow core photonic bandgap fibres for telecom applications

M.N. Petrovich, N.V. Wheeler, R. Slavík, F. Poletti, N.K. Baddela, Eric Numkam Fokoua, J.R. Hayes & D.J. Richardson, 2012

DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253894

Type: conference

Packet compression of complex modulation formats based on coherent optical superposition

Francesca Parmigiani, Joseph Kakande, Liam Jones, Periklis Petropoulos & David J. Richardson, 2012

DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254383

Type: conference