Supervisor: Jacob Mackenzie
Co-Supervisor: Rob Eason
Novel crystalline photonic devices offer exciting opportunities for creating efficient lasers and manipulating the properties of light. Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) is an extraordinary technique using light to create new materials. We seek a talented individual to help us advance the understanding and development of scalable concepts for growing single-crystal structures that will be enabling for a new generation of laser systems and advanced Photonics applications.
This project, advanced crystal film engineering, is specifically aimed at developing new composite active-crystal structures and devices with advanced functionality. Your role will be to learn to grow, characterise, and utilise these PLD-grown advanced materials, suiting someone who is experimentally capable and keen to learn practical skills. Significant opportunities also exist for supporting modelling studies to augment the understanding of the complex PLD dynamics and device applications.
Due to the nature of this project, there will be opportunity for both inter-disciplinary research within the university and collaboration with external partners at national facilities and foreign universities.
Supervisor: Dr Jacob Mackenzie
Co-Supervisor: Professor Andy Clarkson
Cryogenically cooled lasers are becoming a platform-architecture for future high-energy and high-average power systems, currently being developed in large-scale-facilities institutes across the world. The main ambition of the research underpinning this project is to develop small-scale “turn-key” state-of-the-art solid-state lasers in the visible and UV wavelength bands. Targeting modes of operation that will lead to new laser parameters suitable for advanced-manufacturing applications.
We are looking for a keen and pragmatic applicant to advance the performance of cryogenic lasers through discovery of new approaches that capitalise on the unique aspects of these systems. Your role will include practical development of this laser architecture to enable their exploitation in new operating regimes that will outstrip the performance of state-of-the-art room-temperature solid-state lasers.
Due to the nature of this project, there will be opportunity for both inter-disciplinary research within the university and collaboration with external partners such as with the UK national laser facility.