Overview

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Professor David Neil Payne, CBE FRS FREng (born 13 August 1944) is a professor of photonics. He has made several contributions in areas of optical fibre communications over the last forty years and his work has had an impact on telecommunications and laser technology. Payne's work spans diverse areas of photonics, from telecommunications and optical sensors to nanophotonics and optical materials including the first optical fibre drawing tower in a university. Payne's work in fibre fabrication in the 1970s resulted in many of the special fibres used today. He led the team at Southampton that invented the erbium-doped fibre amplifier, a type of optical amplifier, The idea was adopted at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, USA and the two teams between them developed much of the EDFA technology we know today. The EDFA was a crucial component that fuelled an explosive growth in the internet through its ability to transmit and amplify vast amounts of data.

Full Product Details

9786137746394

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Countries Available