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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

Advanced nonlinear signal processing in silicon-based waveguides
Periklis Petropoulos, 2016
Type: conference
Discrete multitone format for repeater-less direct-modulation direct-detection over 150 km
Zhixin Liu, Brian Kelly, John O'Carroll, Richard Phelan, David Richardson & Radan Slavík, 2016, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(13), 3223 - 3229
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2555962
Type: article
High gain holmium-doped fibre amplifiers
Nikita Simakov, Zhihong Li, Yongmin Jung, Jae M.O. Daniel, Pranabesh Barua, Peter C. Shardlow, Sijing Liang, Jayanta K. Sahu, Alexander Hemming, W. Andrew Clarkson, Shaif-ul Alam & David J. Richardson, 2016, Optics Express, 24(13), 13946-13956
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.013946
Type: article
Recent advances in Bi-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers
Jayanta Sahu, Naresh Thipparapu, Andrey Umnikov & Pranabesh Barua, 2016
Type: conference
Broadband silica-based thulium doped fiber amplifier employing dual-wavelength pumping
Junjia Wang, Sijing Liang, Yongmin Jung, Qiongyue Kang, Shaif-ul Alam & David J. Richardson, 2016
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.SM1Q.2
Type: conference