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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

Professor of Photonics
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

Resonant grating for wavelength and polarization selection in high-power lasers emitting in the 2-μm wavelength region
Danish Bashir, Georgia Mourkioti, Ayoub Boubekraoui, Sergei Tomilov, Mykyta Redkin, Clara J. Saraceno, Thomas Graf, Jacob Mackenzie & Marwan Abdou Ahmed, 2025, Applied Physics B, 131(3)
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-025-08410-5
Type: article
Imaging femtosecond laser ablation using plasma emission and deep learning
James A. Grant-Jacob, Ben Mills & Michalis Zervas, 2024
Type: conference
Simulation of solid-state lasers with temperature and wavelength dependent absorption and emission
Souryadeep Saha, Jacob I. Mackenzie & Christof Pflaum, 2024
DOI: 10.1117/12.3016718
Type: conference
Influence of intracavity-air loss on 946-nm Nd:YAG laser performance
Isaac Brock & Jacob Mackenzie, 2024
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202430704014
Type: conference
Sapphire-based resonant waveguide-grating mirrors: advancing their intra-cavity power density capability
Danish Bashir, Ayoub Boubekraoui, Georgia Mourkioti, Fangfang Li, Petri Karvinen, Markku Kuittinen, Jacob I. Mackenzie, Thomas Graf & Marwan Abdou Ahmed, 2023, Applied Physics B, 130(1)
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-023-08144-2
Type: article
Live imaging of laser machining via plasma deep learning
James A. Grant-Jacob, Ben Mills & Michalis N. Zervas, 2023, Optics Express, 31(25), 42581-42594
DOI: 10.1364/OE.507708
Type: article
Predictive visualisation of high repetition rate femtosecond machining of silica using deep learning
Ben Mills, James A. Grant-Jacob & Michalis N. Zervas, 2023, Optical Materials Express, 13(12), 3641-3652
DOI: 10.1364/OME.505746
Type: article