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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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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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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

Research outputs

A versatile, low cost light source module for multiphoton imaging
Konstantinos N. Bourdakos, Duanyang Xu, Peter B. Johnson, Anna Crisford, Lin Xu, Sijing Liang, Jonathan H.V. Price, David J. Richardson & Sumeet Mahajan, 2021
DOI: 10.1117/12.2601570
Type: conference
Compact chirped-pulse amplification systems based on highly Tm3+ doped germanate fiber
Zhengqi Ren, Fedia Ben Slimen, Joris Lousteau, Nicholas White, Yongmin Jung, Jonathan HV Price, David Richardson & Francesco Poletti, 2021, Optics Letters, 46(13), 3013-3016
DOI: 10.1364/OL.422336
Type: article
Predictive visualisation of fibre laser machining via deep learning
Alexander Courtier, Michael David Tom McDonnell, Matthew Praeger, James Grant-Jacob, Christophe A. Codemard, Benjamin Mills & Michael N. Zervas, 2021
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/Europe-EQEC52157.2021.9542389
Type: conference
Waveguide enhanced Raman spectroscopy for biosensing: a review
Mohamed Ettabib, Almudena Marti, Zhen Liu, Bethany M. Bowden, Michael N. Zervas, Philip N. Bartlett & James S. Wilkinson, 2021, ACS Sensors, 6(6), 2025–2045
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c00366
Type: review
High power, electronically-controlled, source of user-defined vortex and vector light beams based on a few-mode fiber amplifier
Di Lin, Joel Carpenter, Yutong Feng, Yongmin Jung, Shaif-Ul Alam & David J. Richardson, 2021, Photonics Research, 9(5), 856-864
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.412342
Type: article