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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

Highly efficient 110-W closed-cycle cryogenically cooled Nd:YAG laser operating at 946-nm
Gholamreza Shayeganrad, Silvia Cante, Jorge Pelegrin Mosquera, Wendell Bailey & Jacob Mackenzie, 2020, Optics Letters, 45(19), 5368-5371
DOI: 10.1364/OL.401011
Type: article
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