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

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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

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Email: jim@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Jayanta Sahu

Professorial Fellow-Research

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Email: jks@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Andy Clarkson

Professor of Optoelectronics Research

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Email: wac@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International

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Email: gb2@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

Hollow Core Optical Fibres
Optical Communications
High Power Fibre Lasers

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Email: djr@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Johan Nilsson

Professor of Optoelectronics

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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

Sub-ps 1030 nm laser-induced damage threshold evaluation of pulsed-laser deposited sesquioxides and magnetron-sputtered metal oxide optical coatings

Marek Stehlík, Goby Govindassamy, Janis Zideluns, Fabien Lemarchand, Frank Wagner, Julien Lumeau, Jacob Mackenzie & Laurent Gallais, 2022

DOI: 10.1117/12.2641792

Type: conference

Crystalline grating-waveguide resonant reflectors

Georgia Mourkioti, Goby Adithya Govindassamy, Fangfang Li, R.W. Eason, Marwan Abdou Ahmed & Jacob Mackenzie, 2022

DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202226702021

Type: conference

Hundred-meter-scale, kilowatt peak-power, near-diffraction-limited, mid-infrared pulse delivery via the low-loss hollow-core fiber

Qiang Fu, Yudi Wu, Ian A. Davidson, Lin Xu, Gregory T. Jasion, Sijing Liang, Shuichiro Rikimi, Francesco Poletti, Natalie V. Wheeler & David J. Richardson, 2022, Optics Letters , 47(20), 5301-5304

DOI: 10.1364/OL.473230

Type: article

Radially polarized 33 W emission from a double-pass Ho:YAG thin-slab amplifier

Matthew James Barber, Peter Shardlow, Callum Robertson Smith & W.A. Clarkson, 2022, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 39(9), 2395-2399

DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.465778

Type: article

High-energy, mid-IR, picosecond fiber-feedback optical parametric oscillator

Yudi Wu, Sijing Liang, Qiang Fu, Thomas D. Bradley, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson & Lin Xu, 2022, Optics Letters, 47(14), 3600-3603

DOI: 10.1364/OL.461118

Type: article