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Laser Technologies for Future Manufacturing

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications
Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

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

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers

Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics

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

2.5 mJ narrow-linewidth, linearly-polarized pulse-burst high-power Yb-doped fiber amplifier system
Huaiqin Lin,
Yujun Feng,
Thomas Hawkins,
Zhimeng Huang,
Yutong Feng,
Jonathan Price,
Liang Dong,
& Johan Nilsson
, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8871459
Type: conference
Transverse-modal-instability gain in high power fiber amplifiers
Michalis N. Zervas
, 2019 , APL Photonics , 4 (2)
DOI: 10.1063/1.5050523
Type: article
Efficient excitation and phase matching of fiber-coupled degenerate whispering gallery modes
Shahab Bakhtiari Gorajoobi,
Ganapathy Senthil Murugan,
& Michael Zervas
, 2019 , Journal of the Optical Society of America B , 36 (9) , 2452--2460
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.002452
Type: article
Hybrid Ho:YAG laser with 50W radially-polarised output
P.C. Shardlow,
M.J. Barber,
A.C. Butler,
& W.A. Clarkson
, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8871524
Type: conference
Modal instabilities in high power fiber laser oscillators
V. Scarnera,
F. Ghiringhelli,
A. Malinowski,
C.A. Codemard,
M.K. Durkin,
& M.N. Zervas
, 2019 , Optics Express , 27 (4) , 4386--4403
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.004386
Type: article