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Research project

Laser Technologies for Future Manufacturing

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications
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Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

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Dr Jacob Mackenzie

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Waveguide amplifiers and lasers
  • Cryogenically cooled lasers for peak and average power scaling
  • Ultra-fast high repetition rate compact lasers
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Email: [email protected]

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research
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Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International
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Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers
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Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

High Power Fibre Lasers

The High Power Fibre Laser group, led by Professor Johan Nilsson, works on advanced fibre lasers for beam combination and sensing for lidar and net-zero aviation (pollution monitoring).

Planar Waveguide and Slab Lasers

We specialise in developing novel photonic materials, waveguide devices, and laser systems for application in remote sensing, defence, manufacturing, and metrology.

Research outputs

Effect of laser repetition rate on the growth of Sc2O3 via pulsed laser deposition
Goby, Adithya Govindassamy, Jake J Prentice, James G. Lunney, R.W. Eason & Jacob Mackenzie, 2022, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 128(7)
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-022-05698-4
Type: article
Single step phase optimisation for coherent beam combination using deep learning
Benjamin Mills, James Grant-Jacob, Matthew Praeger, R.W. Eason, Johan Nilsson & Michael Zervas, 2022, Scientific Reports, 12(5188)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09172-2
Type: article
High-power, high-efficiency, all-fiberized laser-pumped, 260-nm, deep-UV laser for bacterial deactivation
Qiang Fu, Niall Hanrahan, Lin Xu, Simon Lane, Di Lin, Yongmin Jung & David J. Richardson, 2021, Optics Express, 29(26), 42485-42494
DOI: 10.1364/OE.441248
Type: article
The generation of femtosecond optical vortex beams with megawatt powers directly from a fiber based Mamyshev oscillator
Di Lin, Yutong Feng, Zhengqi Ren & David J. Richardson, 2021, Nanophotonics
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0537
Type: article
Modelling of fibre laser cutting via deep learning
Alexander Courtier, Michael, David Tom McDonnell, Matthew Praeger, James Grant-Jacob, Christophe A. Codemard, Paul Harrison, Benjamin Mills & Michalis N. Zervas, 2021, Optics Express, 29(22), 36487-36502
DOI: 10.1364/OE.432741
Type: article