Laser Technologies for Future Manufacturing

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications

Connect with Michalis

Email: mnz@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

Connect with Robert

Email: rwe@orc.soton.ac.uk

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: jim@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

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Email: jks@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research

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Email: wac@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International

Connect with Gilberto

Email: gb2@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

Hollow Core Optical Fibres
Optical Communications
High Power Fibre Lasers

Connect with David

Email: djr@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

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).

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

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

Imaging femtosecond laser ablation using plasma emission and deep learning

James A. Grant-Jacob, Ben Mills & Michalis Zervas, 2024

Type: conference

Simulation of solid-state lasers with temperature and wavelength dependent absorption and emission

Souryadeep Saha, Jacob I. Mackenzie & Christof Pflaum, 2024

Type: conference

Sapphire-based resonant waveguide-grating mirrors: advancing their intra-cavity power density capability

Danish Bashir, Ayoub Boubekraoui, Georgia Mourkioti, Fangfang Li, Petri Karvinen, Markku Kuittinen, Jacob I. Mackenzie, Thomas Graf & Marwan Abdou Ahmed, 2023, Applied Physics B, 130(1)

DOI: 10.1007/s00340-023-08144-2

Type: article

Live imaging of laser machining via plasma deep learning

James A. Grant-Jacob, Ben Mills & Michalis N. Zervas, 2023, Optics Express, 31(25), 42581-42594

DOI: 10.1364/OE.507708

Type: article

Predictive visualisation of high repetition rate femtosecond machining of silica using deep learning

Ben Mills, James A. Grant-Jacob & Michalis N. Zervas, 2023, Optical Materials Express, 13(12), 3641-3652

DOI: 10.1364/OME.505746

Type: article