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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

Compact chirped-pulse amplification systems based on highly Tm3+ doped germanate fiber
Zhengqi Ren, Fedia Ben Slimen, Joris Lousteau, Nicholas White, Yongmin Jung, Jonathan HV Price, David Richardson & Francesco Poletti, 2021, Optics Letters, 46(13), 3013-3016
DOI: 10.1364/OL.422336
Type: article
Predictive visualisation of fibre laser machining via deep learning
Alexander Courtier, Michael David Tom McDonnell, Matthew Praeger, James Grant-Jacob, Christophe A. Codemard, Benjamin Mills & Michael N. Zervas, 2021
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/Europe-EQEC52157.2021.9542389
Type: conference
Waveguide enhanced Raman spectroscopy for biosensing: a review
Mohamed Ettabib, Almudena Marti, Zhen Liu, Bethany M. Bowden, Michael N. Zervas, Philip N. Bartlett & James S. Wilkinson, 2021, ACS Sensors, 6(6), 2025–2045
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c00366
Type: review
High power, electronically-controlled, source of user-defined vortex and vector light beams based on a few-mode fiber amplifier
Di Lin, Joel Carpenter, Yutong Feng, Yongmin Jung, Shaif-Ul Alam & David J. Richardson, 2021, Photonics Research, 9(5), 856-864
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.412342
Type: article
Fibre-delivered kilowatt petal beams with self-healing properties
Natasha Vukovic, Jaclyn Chan, Christophe Codemard & Michael Zervas, 2021
DOI: 10.1117/12.2576885
Type: conference
Reconfigurable structured light generation in a multicore fiber amplifier
Di Lin, Joel Carpenter, Yutong Feng, Yongmin Jung, Saurabh Jain, Yujun Feng, Michael N. Zervas & David J. Richardson, 2021
DOI: 10.1117/12.2588433
Type: conference
Optimized design for grating-coupled waveguide-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Mohamed A. Ettabib, Zhen Liu, Michalis N. Zervas & James S. Wilkinson, 2020, Optics Express , 28(25), 37226-37235
DOI: 10.1364/OE.410602
Type: article