PhD Studentship: Advanced Fibre Laser Sources and Concepts for Coherent Beam Combination

Supervisory Crew: Johan Nilsson, Ben Mills 

Venture Description  

“Good” phased-array lasers primarily based on computer-controlled coherently mixed optical fibre amplifiers promise to revolutionise supplies processing and different necessary laser purposes. Essentially, their benefits derive from fast and versatile management of the beam form and polarisation. Including to this, pc management (notably by means of neural networks and machine studying) is now rising as a method each to implement and to optimise the management. The Good Fibre Optics Excessive-Energy Photonics (HiPPo) programme is a brand new £6 million EPSRC funded 5-year programme pursuing fibre-based phased-array lasers on the Optoelectronics Analysis Centre, College of Southampton gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/W028786/1 , www.orc.soton.ac.uk/information/7058 . In collaboration with NKT Photonics, there may be now a gap for a PhD scholar to analysis superior fibre amplifiers and beam mixture ideas inside this ground-breaking programme. Analysis subjects embrace low-noise fibre amplifiers and section management, fibre nonlinearities and their mitigation, and polarisation administration in difficult fibre programs. You’ll work along with a world-leading staff with state-of-the-art high-power fibre amplifiers from NKT Photonics and/or amplifiers that you just design and construct with fibres fabricated in-house in ORC’s state-of-the-art cleanrooms and laboratories. A few of the work could also be carried out at NKT Photonics in Hamble (inside commuting distance). 

In case you are searching for an industrially-relevant PhD challenge experimentally targeted on fibre lasers and phased arrays with digital and pc/neural community management then this chance is ideal for you. 

When you want to focus on any particulars of the challenge informally, please contact Prof Johan Nilsson, E mail: [email protected] , Tel: +44 (0) 23 8059 3101 or +44 (0) 750 821 3021 

Entry Necessities

An excellent undergraduate diploma (not less than a UK 2:1 honours diploma, or its worldwide equal). 

Closing Date : Purposes needs to be acquired no later than 31 August 2024 for traditional admissions, however later purposes could also be thought-about relying on the funds remaining in place. We may additionally make an appointment as quickly as an acceptable candidate is discovered. 

Funding: For UK college students, Tuition Charges and a stipend of £23,000 tax-free every year for as much as 3.5 years. As well as, there’s a beneficiant funds for coaching and journey. Non-UK college students please contact the supervisor to debate eligibility earlier than making use of. 

How To Apply

Apply on-line: Seek for a Postgraduate Programme of Examine (soton.ac.uk) . Choose programme kind (Analysis), 2024/25, School of Bodily Sciences and Engineering, subsequent web page choose “PhD ORC (Full time)”. In Part 2 of the appliance type it is best to insert the title of the supervisor Johan Nilsson. 

Purposes ought to embrace:

Curriculum Vitae

Two reference letters

Diploma Transcripts/Certificates up to now 

For additional data please contact: [email protected]  

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