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Research project

Laser Technologies for Future Manufacturing

Staff

Lead researchers

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
Connect with Jayanta

Email: jks@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research
Connect with Andy

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

Research outputs

Real-time control of laser materials processing using deep learning
James A. Grant-Jacob, Ben Mills & Michael N. Zervas, 2023, Manufacturing Letters, 38, 11-14
DOI: 10.1016/j.mfglet.2023.08.145
Type: article
Indirect imaging of laser processing using plasma (invited)
James A. Grant-Jacob, 2023, AILU: The Laser User
Type: review
Acoustic and plasma sensing of laser ablation via deep learning
James Grant-Jacob, Benjamin Mills & Michael N. Zervas, 2023, Optics Express, 31(17), 28413-28422
DOI: 10.1364/OE.494700
Type: article
Visualizing laser ablation using plasma imaging and deep learning
James A. Grant-Jacob, Benjamin Mills & Michael N. Zervas, 2023, Optics Continuum, 2(7), 1678-1687
DOI: 10.1364/OPTCON.495923
Type: article
Optimisation and real-time control of femtosecond laser machining via deep learning
Benjamin Mills, James Grant-Jacob, Matthew Praeger, Yunhui Xie & Michael N. Zervas, 2023
Type: conference
Sc2O3 on sapphire all-crystalline grating–waveguide resonant reflectors
Georgia Mourkioti, Danish Bashir, Goby A. Govindassamy, Fangfang Li, Robert W. Eason, Thomas Graf, Marwan Abdou Ahmed & Jacob I. Mackenzie, 2023, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 129(5)
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-023-08009-8
Type: article
Phase identification despite amplitude variation in a coherent beam combination using deep learning
James Grant-Jacob, Benjamin Mills & Michael N. Zervas, 2023, Optics Continuum, 2(4), 902 - 916
DOI: 10.1364/OPTCON.485728
Type: article