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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

Robust, high peak power, thulium-doped fiber chirped-pulse amplification system using a dissipative soliton seed laser
Zhengqi Ren, Jonathan H.V. Price, Shaif-Ul Alam & David J. Richardson, 2019
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2019.STh1E.3
Type: conference
Modal instabilities in high power fiber laser oscillators
V. Scarnera, F. Ghiringhelli, A. Malinowski, C.A. Codemard, M.K. Durkin & M.N. Zervas, 2019, Optics Express, 27(4), 4386-4403
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.004386
Type: article
2.5 mJ narrow-linewidth, linearly-polarized pulse-burst high-power Yb-doped fiber amplifier system
Huaiqin Lin, Yujun Feng, Thomas Hawkins, Zhimeng Huang, Yutong Feng, Jonathan Price, Liang Dong & Johan Nilsson, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8871459
Type: conference
Femtosecond pulses generated from a compact all-polarization-maintaining (PM) Ytterbium-doped fiber laser
Zhichao Wu, Yujun Feng, Song Nian Fu, Ming Tang, Deming Liu, Jonathan Price & Johan Nilsson, 2019
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2019.STu3L.2
Type: conference
Transverse-modal-instability gain in high power fiber amplifiers
Michalis N. Zervas, 2019, APL Photonics, 4(2)
DOI: 10.1063/1.5050523
Type: article