Research project

Fibre Laser systems for coherent beam combination

Research areas:

Photonics and optoelectronics

Research groups:

Nanophotonics Group

Lead researcher:

Doctor Bill Brocklesby
Other researchers:

Professor Sir David Payne,

Professor Johan Nilsson
Research funder:

Breakthrough Starshot Foundation LLC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Doctor Bill Brocklesby

Associate Professor

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.

Connect with Bill

Email: wsb@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Sir David Payne KBE CBE FRS FREng

Head of School

Research interests

Many and varied across photonics, particularly in optical fibre design and fabrication, optical materials, optical sensing, and high-power fibre lasers.

Connect with Sir David

Email: dnp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics

Connect with Johan

Email: jn@orc.soton.ac.uk

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.