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Research project

Manufacturing with Light 2

Staff

Lead researchers

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
Connect with Jacob

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

Connect with Robert

Email: [email protected]

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.

Research outputs

Pulsed laser deposited crystalline optical waveguides for thin-film lasing devices
R.W. Eason, J.I. Mackenzie, David Shepherd, Tina Parsonage, Stephen J. Beecher, Ping Hua & James Grant-Jacob, 2016
Type: conference
7W diode-end-pumped PLD-grown Yb:Lu2O3 planar waveguide laser
T.L. Parsonage, S.J. Beecher, A. Choudhary, J.A. Grant-Jacob, P. Hua, J.I. Mackenzie, D.P. Shepherd & R.W. Eason, 2015
DOI: 10.1364/ASSL.2015.AW1A.6
Type: conference
Growth and initial experiments demonstrating watt level output from Yb:YAG planar waveguides grown by pulsed laser deposition
Stephen Beecher, James Grant-Jacob, Tina Parsonage, Ping Hua, Amol Choudhary, Jacob Mackenzie, David Shepherd & Robert Eason, 2015
DOI: 10.1364/ASSL.2015.ATu1A.9
Type: conference
456mW graphene Q-switched Yb:yttria waveguide laser by evanescent-field interaction
Amol Choudhary, Stephen J. Beecher, Shonali Dhingra, Brian D'Urso, Tina Parsonage, James Grant-Jacob, Ping Hua, Jacob I. Mackenzie, Robert W. Eason & David P. Shepherd, 2015, Optics Letters, 40(9), 1912-1915
DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.001912
Type: article
Pulsed laser deposited diode-pumped 7.4 W Yb:Lu2O3 planar waveguide laser
Tina L. Parsonage, Stephen J. Beecher, Amol Choudhary, James Grant-Jacob, Ping Hua, Jacob I. Mackenzie, David P. Shepherd & Robert W. Eason, 2015, Optics Express, 23(25), 31691-31697
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.031691
Type: article