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Research project

Manufacturing with Light 2

Staff

Lead researcher

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

Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

Connect with Robert

Email: rwe@orc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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

Engineering of thin crystal layers grown by pulsed laser deposition
James Grant-Jacob, Stephen Beecher, Tina Parsonage, Ping Hua, Jacob Mackenzie, David Shepherd & Robert Eason, 2016
DOI: 10.1117/12.2229747
Type: conference
Ultrafast high-repetition-rate waveguide lasers
David Shepherd, Amol Choudhary, Alexander Lagatsky, Kannan Pradeesh, Stephen Beecher, Robert Eason, Jacob Mackenzie, Xian Feng, Wilson Sibbett & C.T.A. Brown, 2016, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 22(2), 1-9
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2466072
Type: article
Yb:YAG planar waveguide lasers grown by pulsed laser deposition: 70% slope efficiencies at 16 W of output power
S.J. Beecher, J.A. Grant-Jacob, T.L. Parsonage, P. Hua, J.I. Mackenzie, D.P. Shepherd & R.W. Eason, 2016
DOI: 10.1117/12.2220388
Type: conference
An 11.5 W Yb:YAG planar waveguide laser fabricated via pulsed laser deposition
James Grant-Jacob, Stephen J. Beecher, Tina L. Parsonage, Ping Hua, Jacob I. Mackenzie, David P. Shepherd & Robert W. Eason, 2016, Optical Materials Express, 6(1), 91-96
DOI: 10.1364/OME.6.000091
Type: article
Er:YGG planar waveguide amplifiers for LIDAR applications
Stephen Beecher, James Grant-Jacob, Ping Hua, David Shepherd, Robert Eason & Jacob Mackenzie, 2016
DOI: 10.1364/ASSL.2016.JTh2A.9
Type: conference