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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

Radially polarized 33 W emission from a double-pass Ho:YAG thin-slab amplifier
Matthew James Barber,
Peter Shardlow,
Callum Robertson Smith,
& W.A. Clarkson
, 2022 , Journal of the Optical Society of America B , 39 (9) , 2395--2399
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.465778
Type: article
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
High-energy, mid-IR, picosecond fiber-feedback optical parametric oscillator
Yudi Wu,
Sijing Liang,
Qiang Fu,
Thomas D. Bradley,
Francesco Poletti,
David J. Richardson,
& Lin Xu
, 2022 , Optics Letters , 47 (14) , 3600--3603
DOI: 10.1364/OL.461118
Type: article
Effect of laser repetition rate on the growth of Sc2O3 via pulsed laser deposition
Goby, Adithya Govindassamy,
Jake J Prentice,
James G. Lunney,
R.W. Eason,
& Jacob Mackenzie
, 2022 , Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing , 128 (7)
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-022-05698-4
Type: article
Single step phase optimisation for coherent beam combination using deep learning
Benjamin Mills,
James Grant-Jacob,
Matthew Praeger,
R.W. Eason,
Johan Nilsson,
& Michael Zervas
, 2022 , Scientific Reports , 12 (5188)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09172-2
Type: article
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