Research project

Integrated Photonics

Research groups:

Nanophotonics Group
Lead researchers:

Professor Robert Eason
Other researchers:

Dr Jacob Mackenzie,

Professor Peter G.R. Smith,

Emeritus Professor James Wilkinson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Eason

Connect with Robert

Email: rwe@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

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 Peter G.R. Smith

Professor in Electronics & Comp Science

Connect with Peter G.R.

Email: Peter.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor James Wilkinson PhD, CEng, FIET, FInstP, FIEEE

Connect with James

Email: jsw@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Photonic Systems, Circuits and Sensors Group

Our group’s research in photonics is helping the development of critical global technologies.

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

Fundamentally mode-locked, femtosecond waveguide oscillators with multi-gigahertz repetition frequencies up to 15 GHz

2013, Optics Express, 21(17), 19608-19614

DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019608

Type: article

A diode-pumped 1.5µm waveguide laser mode-locked at 6.8GHz by a quantum dot SESAM

2013, Laser Physics Letters, 10(10), 1-6

DOI: 10.1088/1612-2011/10/10/105803

Type: article

Single-pulse multiphoton polymerization of complex structures using a digital multimirror device

Benjamin Mills, James Grant-Jacob, Matthias Feinäugle & Robert W. Eason, 2013, Optics Express, 21(12), 14853-14858

DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014853

Type: article

Micron-scale copper wires printed using femtosecond laser-induced forward transfer with automated donor replenishment

James Grant-Jacob, Benjamin Mills, Matthias Feinäugle, Collin L. Sones, Gerrit Oosterhuis, Marc B. Hoppenbrouwers & Robert W. Eason, 2013, Optical Materials, 3(6), 747-754

DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000747

Type: article

Laser operation of a Tm:Y₂O₃ planar waveguide

Jakub Szela, Katherine Sloyan, Tina L. Parsonage, Jacob I. Mackenzie & Robert W. Eason, 2013, Optics Express, 21(10), 12460-12468

DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.012460

Type: article