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Dr Lin Xu

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Mode-locked fibre lasers (Ytterbium & Thulium fibre systems); 
  • Nonlinear fibre amplifiers for ultrashort pulses; 
  • Mid-infrared fibre lasers (Optical parametric devices); 

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Lin

Profile photo 
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Name 
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Job title 
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Research interests (for researchers only) 
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In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.

Contact details 
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ORCID ID 
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Accepting PhD applicants (for researchers only) 
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About

Dr. Lin Xu has his expertise in Fibre Lasers and Nonlinear Optics including Raman laser, supercontinuum generation and optical parametric oscillators. He obtained his Ph.D degree in laser engineering from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Science, China, in 2012. He has been working in the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, UK, since 2013.

He is currently an Associate Professor at the ORC and his research and contribution are at the forefront in the field of high power pulsed fibre lasers and mid-infrared lasers (optical parametric oscillators, Raman lasers and supercontinuum laser sources). As a PI or Co-I, he has managed several research grants in the past a few years with a total funding over £8M. He is serving as a reviewer editor of the Journal of Frontiers in Photonics, and a journal reviewer of various international referred journals such as Laser & Photonics Reviews, Optica, Optics Letters, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, etc. He is a committee member of the Nonlinear Optics Technical Group of OPTICA.

You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.

Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.

You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.