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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

Modelling and Optimisation of Femtosecond Laser Machining via Deep Learning (Invited)
Benjamin Mills, James Grant-Jacob & Michael Zervas, 2023
Type: conference
Morphology exploration of pollen using deep learning latent space
James Grant-Jacob, Michael N. Zervas & Benjamin Mills, 2023, IOP SciNotes
DOI: 10.1088/2633-1357/acadb9
Type: article
Sub-ps 1030 nm laser-induced damage threshold evaluation of pulsed-laser deposited sesquioxides and magnetron-sputtered metal oxide optical coatings
Marek Stehlík, Goby Govindassamy, Janis Zideluns, Fabien Lemarchand, Frank Wagner, Julien Lumeau, Jacob Mackenzie & Laurent Gallais, 2022
DOI: 10.1117/12.2641792
Type: conference
Crystalline grating-waveguide resonant reflectors
Georgia Mourkioti, Goby Adithya Govindassamy, Fangfang Li, R.W. Eason, Marwan Abdou Ahmed & Jacob Mackenzie, 2022
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202226702021
Type: conference
Hundred-meter-scale, kilowatt peak-power, near-diffraction-limited, mid-infrared pulse delivery via the low-loss hollow-core fiber
Qiang Fu, Yudi Wu, Ian A. Davidson, Lin Xu, Gregory T. Jasion, Sijing Liang, Shuichiro Rikimi, Francesco Poletti, Natalie V. Wheeler & David J. Richardson, 2022, Optics Letters , 47(20), 5301-5304
DOI: 10.1364/OL.473230
Type: article