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Smart Fibre-Optic High Power Photonics (HiPPo)

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Michalis Zervas PhD

Professor of Optical Communications
Other researchers

Professor Sir David Payne KBE CBE FRS FREng

Professor of Photonics

Research interests

  • Many and varied across photonics, particularly in optical fibre design and fabrication, optical materials, optical sensing, and high-power fibre lasers.

Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng FCGI

Regius Professor of Computer Science

Research interests

  • Web Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Science

Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

Dr Peter Horak

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Theory and simulation of nonlinear and quantum optics
  • Laser pulse propagation and manipulation in optical fibres
  • Quantum technology, integrated optics, optical resonators

Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics

Dr Ben Mills

Principal Research Fellow

Dr Yongmin Jung

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Multicore fibre technology
  • Multimode fibre technology
  • Wideband fibre amplifier technology

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Fibres and Communications

We develop new fibre technologies and explore their applications in areas including communications, sensing, lasers, materials processing and imaging.

Advanced Solid-State Sources

The Advanced Solid-State Sources group develops novel approaches for scaling output power from lasers for use in a variety of applications including industrial manufacturing, medicine and defence.

Computational Nonlinear Optics

We develop theoretical models and computer simulations for a wide range of photonics systems, such as optical fibres, integrated waveguides, and quantum technology.

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).

Pulsed Fibre Lasers

We specialise in developing pulsed laser technology for use in medicine, defence, renewable energy, and manufacturing.

Smart Lasers and Special Fibres

Our research vision is to revolutionise manufacturing in the digital era by developing the next generation of ‘smart’ fibre laser tools for medical and biosciences sectors.

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