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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

High peak power tunable DUV source around 275 nm from a frequency quadrupled Yb-doped fiber MOPA
Jing He, Di Lin, Lin Xu, M. Beresna, M.N. Zervas, S-U. Alam & G. Brambilla, 2018
DOI: 10.1364/ASSL.2018.ATh2A.3
Type: conference
Design of rare-earth-doped microbottle lasers
Shahab Bakhtiari Gorajoobi, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan & Michalis N. Zervas, 2018, Optics Express, 26(20), 26339-26354
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.026339
Type: article
Robust phase retrieval using group-delay-dispersion-scanned second harmonic generation demonstrated in a femtosecond fiber chirped-pulse amplification system
Yujun Feng, Johan Nilsson & Jonathan Price, 2018, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2018.2850444
Type: article
Effects of perturbation relative phase on transverse mode instability gain
Michalis N. Zervas, 2018
DOI: 10.1117/12.2294917
Type: conference
Power scaling limits in high power fiber amplifiers due to transverse mode instability, thermal lensing, and fiber mechanical reliability
Michalis N. Zervas, 2018
DOI: 10.1117/12.2289792
Type: conference