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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

Spectroscopy of thulium-doped tantalum pentoxide waveguides on silicon
Amy Sen Kay Tong, Colin Mitchell, Armen Aghajani, Neil Sessions, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Jacob Mackenzie & James S Wilkinson, 2020, Optical Materials Express, 10(9), 2201-2211
DOI: 10.1364/OME.397011
Type: article
Noise-related polarization dynamics for femto and picosecond pulses in normal dispersion fibers
2020, Optics Express, 28(15), 21447-21463
DOI: 10.1364/OE.396404
Type: article
Plasmonics microbottle resonator of meniscus gold
Mohd Narizee Mohd Nasir, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Hairul Azhar Abdul-Rashid & Michael N. Zervas, 2020
DOI: 10.1109/ICP46580.2020.9206457
Type: conference
Beam shaping with a multicore fiber amplifier
Di Lin, Joel Carpenter, Yutong Feng, Saurabh Jain, Yongmin Jung, Yujun Feng, Michael N. Zervas & David Richardson, 2020
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2020.STu4R.4
Type: conference
Controllable generation of structured light beams in a few-mode fiber MOPA
Di Lin, Joel Carpenter, Yutong Feng, Yongmin Jung, Shaif-Ul Alam & David J. Richardson, 2020
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2020.JTh4B.8
Type: conference