| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L10932/01 |
| Title: |
EQUIPMENT FOR OPTOELECTRONICS RESEARCH |
| Principal Investigator: |
Payne, Professor Sir DN |
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| Department: |
Optoelectronics Research Ctr (closed) |
| Organisation: |
University of Southampton |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 February 1996 |
Ends: |
31 March 1997 |
Value (£): |
285,000
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| Optical Devices & Subsystems |
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The equipment requested will enable a very wide range of experiments to proceed, which are currently blocked by lack of appropriate equipment. In the area of fibre devices the proposed upgrades to fibre fabrication will enable a very important new generation of glasses, which have demanding thermo-mechanical requirements, to be successfully developed. 1.3mM amplifiers are an important class of devices which will benefit. Other fibre fabrication processes that will be developed, are very long in-fibre gratings, as needed for dispersion compensation, and grating fabrication on the draw. Fibre measurements at 10Gbit/s are needed so that realistic systems measurements can be made in house.In the area of high power diode-pumped lasers, the development of a novel beam-shaping technology has given the ORC an important lead. Efficient launch of high power from such devices into fibres has exciting prospects for cladding pumped fibre lasers. Dedicated beam profiling equipment is needed to optimise fibre launch, and also to enable a study of the strong thermal distortions that such high intensity pumping can now produce in laser media. Diode-pumped bulk and waveguide amplifiers and periodically poled LiNbO3 are two examples of areas of rapidly growing importance, where the use of MOPA systems as pump systems and signal sources will have enormous benefit.
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http://www.soton.ac.uk |