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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
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2026
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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
UK
2022

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
119
Citations
58506
World Ranking
66
National Ranking
35

Physics

D-Index
126
Citations
64939
World Ranking
638
National Ranking
355

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to optical fiber technology
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
  • 2005 - OSA Fellows For extensive contributions to photonics, in particular the development of holey fibers, high-power fiber lasers, and short pulse fiber lasers
  • 1988 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David J. Richardson is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has a research profile focused primarily on engineering and physics, specifically within electrical and electronic engineering and atomic and molecular physics, and optics. Their research encompasses a broad range of specialized topics related to optical network technologies, photonic crystal and fiber optics, and advanced fiber laser technologies.

Their work also involves advanced fiber optic sensors, photonic and optical devices, advanced photonic communication systems, and semiconductor lasers and optical devices. These research themes highlight a concentration on the development and understanding of fiber optics and photonics systems.

David J. Richardson has published extensively in several major venues, including the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Optics Express, ePrints Soton (University of Southampton), and arXiv (Cornell University). This reflects a consistent contribution to both conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals in the fields of optics and photonics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richardson include Francesco Poletti, Yongmin Jung, Radan Slavík, Eric Numkam Fokoua, and Thomas D. Bradley. These collaborations suggest a network of research concentrated on optical fiber technologies and related photonic systems.

Some of the recent published papers associated with David J. Richardson include:

  • Loss in hollow-core optical fibers: mechanisms, scaling rules, and limits, 2022, Advances in Optics and Photonics
  • 0.174 dB/km Hollow Core Double Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fiber (DNANF), 2022, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2022
  • Kilowatt-average-power single-mode laser light transmission over kilometre-scale hollow-core fibre, 2022, Nature Photonics
  • Ultra-Broadband Bismuth-Doped Fiber Amplifier Covering a 115-nm Bandwidth in the O and E Bands, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Reconfigurable structured light generation in a multicore fibre amplifier, 2020, Nature Communications

David J. Richardson has been recognized with several awards, including being named Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2018, IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to optical fiber technology, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2009, and OSA Fellow in 2005 for extensive contributions to photonics, in particular the development of holey fibers, high-power fiber lasers, and short pulse fiber lasers. They were also a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres

    D. J. Richardson;J. M. Fini;L. E. Nelson

  • High power fiber lasers: current status and future perspectives [Invited]

    D. J. Richardson;J. Nilsson;W. A. Clarkson

  • Ultra-low-loss optical fiber nanotapers

    Gilberto Brambilla;Vittoria Finazzi;David J. Richardson

  • ENZYMES AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEMS THAT CATALYSE THE RESPIRATORY REDUCTION OF NITROGEN OXIDES AND OXYANIONS

    Ben C. Berks;Stuart J. Ferguson;James W.B. Moir;James W.B. Moir;David J. Richardson

  • Bacterial respiration: a flexible process for a changing environment.

    David J. Richardson

  • Holey optical fibers: an efficient modal model

    T.M. Monro;D.J. Richardson;N.G.R. Broderick;P.J. Bennett

  • Roadmap of optical communications

    Erik Agrell;Magnus Karlsson;A R Chraplyvy;David J Richardson

  • Selfstarting passively mode-locked fibre ring soliton laser exploiting nonlinear polarisation rotation

    V.J. Matsas;T.P. Newson;D.J. Richardson;David N. Payne

  • All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems

    Radan Slavík;Francesca Parmigiani;Joseph Kakande;Carl Lundström

  • Mitigating release of the potent greenhouse gas N2O from the nitrogen cycle – could enzymic regulation hold the key?

    David J. Richardson;Heather Felgate;Nick Watmough;Andrew Thomson

  • A Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron

    K.F. Smith;N. Crampin;J.M. Pendlebury;D.J. Richardson

  • Hexagonally poled lithium niobate: A two-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal

    N. G. R. Broderick;G. W. Ross;H. L. Offerhaus;D. J. Richardson

  • Nonlinearity in holey optical fibers: measurement and future opportunities

    N.G.R. Broderick;T.M. Monro;P.J. Bennett;D.J. Richardson

  • Characterization of an electron conduit between bacteria and the extracellular environment

    Robert S. Hartshorne;Catherine L. Reardon;Daniel Ross;Jochen Nuester

  • Sensing with microstructured optical fibres

    Tanya M Monro;Walter Belardi;Kentaro Furusawa;Joanne C Baggett

  • Interrogation of fiber grating sensor arrays with a wavelength-swept fiber laser

    Seok Hyun Yun;D. J. Richardson;Byoung Yoon Kim

  • Ultra-Cold Neutrons

    Robert Golub;David J. Richardson;Steve Keith Lamoreaux

  • Self-similarity in ultrafast nonlinear optics

    John M. Dudley;Christophe Finot;Christophe Finot;David J. Richardson;Guy Millot

  • Filling the Light Pipe

    David J. Richardson

  • Towards high-capacity fibre-optic communications at the speed of light in vacuum

    F. Poletti;N. V. Wheeler;M. N. Petrovich;N. Baddela

  • Optical fiber nanowires and microwires: fabrication and applications

    Gilberto Brambilla;Fei Xu;Peter Horak;Yongmin Jung

  • The roles of outer membrane cytochromes of Shewanella and Geobacter in extracellular electron transfer.

    Liang Shi;David J. Richardson;Zheming Wang;Sebastien N. Kerisit

Frequent Co-Authors

Periklis Petropoulos
Periklis Petropoulos University of Southampton
Francesco Poletti
Francesco Poletti University of Southampton
Yongmin Jung
Yongmin Jung University of Southampton
Francesca Parmigiani
Francesca Parmigiani Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
Morten Ibsen
Morten Ibsen University of Southampton
Radan Slavik
Radan Slavik University of Southampton
Jayanta K. Sahu
Jayanta K. Sahu University of Southampton
Neil G. R. Broderick
Neil G. R. Broderick University of Auckland
Tanya M. Monro
Tanya M. Monro University of South Australia
David N. Payne
David N. Payne University of Southampton

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