About the project
This project will contribute to a major Ministry of Defence (MoD) research programme intended to develop generation after next technologies for applications in defence and security.
The project will have two main themes:
- exploring coherent beam combination to increase laser power well beyond the fundamental limits of a single laser. The emphasis of the work will be to investigate an all-fibre approach to eliminate or reduce the need for free-space optical components.
- exploring whether beams with tailored profiles in terms of phase, intensity and polarisation can offer advantages in terms of atmospheric propagation and overall effect.
You will be part of a new MoD/EPSRC Energy Transfer Technology Skills and Training (S&T) Hub. The main aim of this S&T Hub is to train the next generation of leaders in energy transfer technologies. The Hub is supported by MoD, Dstl, and UK companies working in the defence and security sector.
You will be based at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, being part of a cohort of 12 PhD students across a number of UK institutions. The Skills and Training Hub will run online and face-to-face activities to facilitate cohort building and group learning exercises throughout the PhD programme. The project will involve close collaboration with our industrial partner Dstl, who will contribute to PhD supervision by providing a placement opportunity and access to facilities to complement those at the ORC.
