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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

113-W cryogenically-cooled 946-nm Nd:YAG laser
G. Shayeganrad, S. Cante, J. Pelegrin Mosquera, W. O.S. Bailey & J. I. Mackenzie, 2020
Type: conference
Supercontinuum decoherence due to XPM-assisted Raman amplification in normal dispersion fibers for polarization or wavelength offset pulses
2019, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 37(3), 635-644
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.379563
Type: article
Compact, high repetition rate, 4.2 MW peak power, 1925 nm, thulium-doped fiber chirped-pulse amplification system with dissipative soliton seed laser
Zhengqi Ren, Q. Fu, L. Xu, J.H.V. Price, S-U. Alam & D.J. Richardson, 2019, Optics Express, 27(25), 36741-36749
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.036741
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
Active instantaneous-phase equalization and amplitude control in pulse-bursts in a narrow-linewidth divided-pulse Yb-doped fiber amplification system
Huaiqin Lin, Yujun Feng, Jonathan Price, Thomas Hawkins, Liang Dong & Johan Nilsson, 2019
DOI: 10.1364/ASSL.2019.ATh2A.2
Type: conference