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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

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

Compact, high repetition rate, 4.2 MW peak power, 1925 nm, thulium-doped fiber chirped-pulse amplification system with dissipative soliton seed laser
Zhengqi Ren, Q. Fu, L. Xu, J.H.V. Price, S-U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2019, Optics Express, 27(25), 36741-36749
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.036741
Type: article
Hybrid Ho:YAG laser with 50W radially-polarised output
P.C. Shardlow, M.J. Barber, A.C. Butler & W.A. Clarkson, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8871524
Type: conference
Active instantaneous-phase equalization and amplitude control in pulse-bursts in a narrow-linewidth divided-pulse Yb-doped fiber amplification system
Huaiqin Lin, Yujun Feng, Jonathan Price, Thomas Hawkins, Liang Dong & Johan Nilsson, 2019
DOI: 10.1364/ASSL.2019.ATh2A.2
Type: conference
Single-shot phase and amplitude fluctuations of narrow-linewidth pulse bursts in divided pulse amplifier
Huaiqin Lin, Yujun Feng, Jonathan Price & Johan Nilsson, 2019, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 31(20), 1662-1665
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2019.2942175
Type: article
Efficient excitation and phase matching of fiber-coupled degenerate whispering gallery modes
Shahab Bakhtiari Gorajoobi, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan & Michael Zervas, 2019, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 36(9), 2452-2460
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.002452
Type: article