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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-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
Effect of laser repetition rate on the growth of Sc2O3 via pulsed laser deposition
Goby, Adithya Govindassamy, Jake J Prentice, James G. Lunney, R.W. Eason & Jacob Mackenzie, 2022, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 128(7)
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-022-05698-4
Type: article
Single step phase optimisation for coherent beam combination using deep learning
Benjamin Mills, James Grant-Jacob, Matthew Praeger, R.W. Eason, Johan Nilsson & Michael Zervas, 2022, Scientific Reports, 12(5188)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09172-2
Type: article
High-power, high-efficiency, all-fiberized laser-pumped, 260-nm, deep-UV laser for bacterial deactivation
Qiang Fu, Niall Hanrahan, Lin Xu, Simon Lane, Di Lin, Yongmin Jung & David J. Richardson, 2021, Optics Express, 29(26), 42485-42494
DOI: 10.1364/OE.441248
Type: article
The generation of femtosecond optical vortex beams with megawatt powers directly from a fiber based Mamyshev oscillator
Di Lin, Yutong Feng, Zhengqi Ren & David J. Richardson, 2021, Nanophotonics
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0537
Type: article