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Research project

Laser Technologies for Future Manufacturing

Staff

Lead researcher

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

High Power Fibre Lasers

The High Power Fibre Laser group, led by Professor Johan Nilsson, works on advanced fibre lasers for beam combination and sensing for lidar and net-zero aviation (pollution monitoring).

Nanophotonics Group

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

Planar Waveguide and Slab Lasers

We specialise in developing novel photonic materials, waveguide devices, and laser systems for application in remote sensing, defence, manufacturing, and metrology.

Research outputs

5.6 kW peak power, nanosecond pulses at 274 nm from a frequency quadrupled Yb-doped fiber MOPA
Jing He, Di Lin, Lin Xu, Martynas Beresna, Michael Zervas, Shaif-Ul Alam & Gilberto Brambilla, 2018, Optics Express, 26(6), 6554-6559
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.006554
Type: article
Pulsed fibre laser with spatial and temporal control
Paulo Almeida, Philip Gorman, Jaclyn S. Chan, Natasha Vukovic, Christophe A. Codemard & Michalis N. Zervas, 2018
DOI: 10.1117/12.2289838
Type: conference
Resonant SRS filtering fiber for high power fiber laser applications
Natasha Vukovic, Michael Zervas, Christophe Codemard, Jaclyn Chan, Andrew Malinowski, Marco Petrovich, John Hayes & Paulo J. Almeida, 2017, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 24(3)
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2017.2773613
Type: journalSpecialIssue
Transient modal instabilities in high power fibre lasers
V. Scarnera, F. Ghiringhelli, M. K. Durkin, C. A. Codemard & M. N. Zervas, 2017
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2017.8087025
Type: conference
Integrated reconfigurable photonic filters based on interferometric fractional Hilbert transforms
C. Sima, B. Cai, B. Liu, Y. Gao, J.C. Gates, M.N. Zervas, P.G.R. Smith & D. Liu, 2017, Applied Optics, 56(28), 7978-7984
DOI: 10.1364/AO.56.007978
Type: article