About
Bill Brocklesby started in research at the Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford, working on laser spectroscopy. He worked as a post-doctoral member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell laboratories, where he worked on novel spectroscopy of rare-earth doped optical fibres. He moved to Southampton as a lecturer in the Physics Department in 1989, and moved to the ORC (now Zepler Institute) in 2003. At present he is an Associate Professor in the Zepler Institute.
Research
Research groups
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Research interests
- Bill Brocklesby’s research has centered around novel imaging & microscopy techniques in the visible and XUV spectral regions over the last 10-15 years.
- He is at present working on coherent diffractive imaging of nanoscale systems using XUV radiation generated by high-power ultrashort pulse lasers. This interest in high-power ultrafast lasers led to involvement in the ICAN project, conceived by Gérard Mourou and Toshiki Tajima, which studied large-scale beam combination of ultrafast fibre lasers for wake-field acceleration.
- Dr Brocklesby was Project Manager of ICAN, and large-scale beam combination remains a topic of interest.
- Dr Brocklesby also has extensive research experience in Raman microscopy, near-field techniques such as scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM), atomic force microscopy, & scanning tunneling microscopy, as well as a background in optical spectroscopy of rare-earth doped materials and optical fibres.
Research projects
Completed projects
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Sponsor: European University Association
Sponsor: Breakthrough Starshot Foundation LLC
Researchers:
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Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
Sponsor: European Union
Publications
192 publications
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Gavin Man,
William S. Brocklesby,
& Victoria Hooper
, 2021
Type: report
András Vekassy,
Aspen Fenzl,
Erhan Gulsen,
Hewan Zewdu,
Jamie Longio,
Maximilian Hoffman,
Rhyan Barrett,
Rubaiyat Khondaker,
Anna Catton,
Hongyang Dong,
Kevin Calvache,
Kaylee Patel,
King Wong,
Louis Greenhalgh,
Rebecca, Jane Clements,
Thomas Allam,
Sarah Scripps,
Gavin Man,
Michael Blakey,
& William Brocklesby
, 2021
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P0158
Type: conference
William S. Brocklesby,
, 2021
Type: conference
Donald Cruickshank,
, 2020
, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
, 7 (9) , 8631--8640
Type: article
Peter Baksh,
Michal Odstrčil,
Magdalena Miszczak,
Charles Pooley,
Richard Chapman,
Adam Wyatt,
Emma Springate,
& William Brocklesby
, 2020
, Science Advances
, 6 (18)
Type: article
William Brocklesby,
Charles Pooley,
& Haoyan Lu
, 2019
Type: conference
Senta Lisa Jantzen,
Naruo Yoshikawa,
Daniella Hares,
Guilio Cupilari,
Alan Gray,
Devin H. Smith,
William Brocklesby,
, 2019
Type: conference
Naruo Yoshikawa,
Greg Blanchard-Emmerson,
Sam Watts,
William Brocklesby,
, 2019
, IEEE Sensors Journal
, 19 (8) , 2984--2990
Type: article
Arthur, William Degen-Knifton,
& William Brocklesby
, 2017
Type: conference
Supervision
Current PhD Students
Michael Blakey
MSc Chemistry by Research
PhD Chemistry
Rhys Jacob William Donovan
PhD ORC
External roles and responsibilities
Name:
High-resolution XUV Ptychography of Biological Samples Using HHG Sources
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2020
Name:
Extreme ultraviolet ptychography for biological imaging
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2023