Research expertise
- Laser and non-linear physics
- Fibre based sensors (humidity, chemical, vibration/acoustic, force/torque)
- Guided wave lasers including planar and fibre geometries
- Optical fibre design and glass fabrication
- High power fibre lasers
- Lasers for field deployment (spectroscopy and electronic warfare)
- Frequency combs
- Femtosecond laser micromachining
- Non-linear frequency conversion
- Theory and modelling of non-linear optical phenomena
- Measurement of material non-linearity and dispersion.
Application areas include
- Defence
- Mining
- Medical devices
- Ophthalmic
- Communications
- Minerals exploration.
Capabilities of the LPPDL
- Laser development and characterisation including spectral, power, temporal and spatial covering the visible through to the mid-infrared
- Optical fibre cleaving and splicing
- Glass waveguide fabrication/ FBG inscription, including an ultra-fast femtosecond system (four-axis air-bearing CNC stages, Imra fs laser); diamond-saw CNC; waveguide polishing
- Materials spectral characterisation, high resolution optical microscope.
