David Richardson (physicist)

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David Richardson

David Richardson at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born
David John Richardson

1964 (age 59–60)[2]
EducationTaunton’s College
Alma materUniversity of Sussex (BSc, PhD)[3][4]
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Southampton
ThesisThe production of, and experiments with, monochromatic ultra cold neutrons (1989)
Websitewww.orc.soton.ac.uk/people/djr1

David John Richardson FRS FREng[5] (born 1964) is a Professor and Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton.[3][1][6]

Education

Richardson was educated at St George’s

PhD in Physics at the University of Sussex in 1989.[4]

Career and research

Richardson is a pioneer in the field of

optical fibres of high performance – capable, for example, of transmitting large quantities of data across the internet at high speed.[5]

Richardson was also one of the first to demonstrate the potential of compact, flexible, pulsed fibre lasers operating over a broad range of powers, pulse durations and wavelengths.

kilowatts of optical power for manufacturing with lasers.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f David Richardson publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Anon (2019). "Richardson, Prof. David John". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b "Professor David Richardson - Optoelectronics Research Centre - University of Southampton". www.orc.soton.ac.uk.
  4. ^ a b Richardson, David John (1989). The production of, and experiments with, monochromatic ultra cold neutrons. jisc.ac.uk (Thesis). University of Sussex. Copac 42677383.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Anon (2018). "Professor David Richardson FREng FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)

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