Professor K. Alan Shore

Emeritus Professor

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K. Alan Shore received a BA ( MA) in mathematics from the University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree from the then University College, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.

He was a Lecturer with the University of Liverpool from 1979 to 1983 and with the University of Bath, where he became a Senior Lecturer in 1986, a Reader in 1990, and a Professor in 1995. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, in 1987. In 1989, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands. From 1990 to 1991, he was with the Teledanmark Research Laboratory and the MIDIT Center of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby. He was a Guest Researcher with the Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan, in 1991. In 1992, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Physics, University de les IllesBalears, Palma–Majorca, Spain. He was a Visiting Lecturer with the Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, from 1996 to 1998, and a Visiting Researcher with the Department of Physics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2008. In 2001, he was a Visiting Researcher with the ATR Adaptive Communications Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. From 2001 to 2008, he was the Director of Industrial and Commercial Optoelectronics (ICON), a Welsh Development Agency Centre of Excellence.

He has authored or co-authored more than 1000 contributions to archival journals, books, and technical conferences. With Prof. Deb Kane, he co-edited the research monograph Unlocking Dynamical Diversity. His research work has been principally in the area of semiconductor optoelectronic device design and experimental characterization with particular emphasis on nonlinearities in laser diodes and semiconductor optical waveguides. His current research interests include semiconductor laser nonlinear dynamics and its applications, and the dynamics  of semiconductor nanolasers.

In 1995, he was appointed to the Chair of Electronic Engineering at Bangor University. He was the Chair of the Welsh Optoelectronics Forum from 2006 to 2008 and has chaired the Photonics Academy for Wales, since its establishment in 2005. From 2008 to 2011, he was the Chair of the Quantum Electronics Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

Prof. Shore has been a Program Member for several OSA conferences. In 2010, he held a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship with the Ultrafast Photonics Group, Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.

He was a Co-Organizer of a Rank Prize Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics in Lasers held at the Lake District, U.K., in 2002. He cofounded and from 1987 to 2012 acted as the Organizer and Program Committee Chair for the International Conference on Semiconductor and Integrated Optoelectronics (SIOE), which is held annually in Cardiff, Wales, U.K. He chaired the Education and Training in Optics and Photonics conference held at the Technium OpTIC, Wales, 2009. He coordinated International Year of Light activities in Wales during 2015.He chaired the Science and Technology Committee of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bodedern, 2017.

He was awarded the Science and Technology Medal of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Boduan, 2023

He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Institute of Physics, and the Learned Society of Wales for which he has served as a Council Member from 2012 to 2015 and from 2016 to 2024 and as its General Secretary from 2017 to 2023.

He is a member of the 2023/2024 UK Young Academy Membership Selection Committee.

He is the  Manager for Wales of the Alumni Association of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ( JSPS)

  1. Cyhoeddwyd

    Practical approached for reducing pump power dependence of the transparency condition in semiconductor optical amplifiers

    Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Medi 2000.

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  2. Cyhoeddwyd

    Public Engagement with Photonics: International Year of Light Celebratory Event in Wales

    Davies, R. & Shore, K. A., 8 Hyd 2015, Yn: Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering. 9793

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  3. Cyhoeddwyd

    Pump-power dependence of transparency characteristics in semiconductor optical amplifiers.

    Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Rhag 2000, Yn: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 36, 12, t. 1462-1467

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  4. Cyhoeddwyd

    Pure frequency-polarization bistability in vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers.

    Hong, Y. H., Shore, K. A., Larsson, A., Ghisoni, M. & Halonen, J., 1 Tach 2000.

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  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    Quantum noise management in multi-element laser diode arrays.

    Shore, K. A. & Kane, D. M., 1 Awst 2004, Yn: Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. 6, 8, t. S757-S761

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  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Quantum noise penalty in laser diode arrays

    Shore, K. A. & Kane, D. M., 1 Ebr 2002.

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  7. Cyhoeddwyd

    Quantum noise penalty in laser diode arrays.

    Shore, K. A. & Kane, D. M., 1 Ebr 2003, Yn: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 150, 2, t. 163-166

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  8. Cyhoeddwyd

    Quantum noise properties of laser diode arrays

    Shore, K. A. & Kane, D. M., 1 Meh 2003.

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  9. Cyhoeddwyd

    Quiet laser diodes

    Shore, K. A. & Kane, D. M., 1 Rhag 2000.

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  10. Cyhoeddwyd

    RIN Properties of intersubband semiconductor lasers

    Mustafa, N., Pesquera, L. & Shore, K. A., 1 Meh 2000.

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  11. Cyhoeddwyd

    RIN measurements for laser diodes subject to strong optical feedback

    Hong, Y. H., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2002.

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  12. Cyhoeddwyd

    Real-Time 2.5-Gb/s Correlated Random Bit Generation Using Synchronized Chaos Induced by a Common Laser with Dispersive Feedback

    Wang, L., Wang, D., Gao, H., Guo, Y., Hong, Y. & Shore, A., Chwef 2020, Yn: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 56, 1

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  13. Cyhoeddwyd

    Real-time online photonic random number generation

    Li, P., Zhang, J., Sang, L., Liu, X., Guo, Y., Guo, X., Wang, A., Shore, K. A. & Wang, Y., 15 Gorff 2017, Yn: Optics Letters. 42, 14, t. 2699-2702

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  14. Cyhoeddwyd

    Regimes of chaotic synchronization in external-cavity laser diodes.

    Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Medi 2002, Yn: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 38, 9, t. 1155-1161

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  15. Cyhoeddwyd

    Regimes of synchronisation in chaotic optical communication systems.

    Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J. & Shore, K. A., 1 Awst 2002.

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  16. Cyhoeddwyd

    Relative intensity noise of unipolar intersubband semiconductor lasers.

    Mustafa, N., Pesquera, L. & Shore, K. A., 1 Medi 2000, Yn: Journal of Modern Optics. 47, 11, t. 1825-1835

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  17. Cyhoeddwyd

    Role of Suppressed Mode in the Polarization Switching Characteristics of Optically Injected VCSELs

    Qader, A. A., Hong, Y. & Shore, K. A., 1 Chwef 2013, Yn: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 49, 2, t. 205-210

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  18. Cyhoeddwyd

    Root locus method for predicting the stability of laser diodes with optical feedback

    Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 8 Meh 2000, Yn: Electronics Letters. 36, 12, t. 1029-1031

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  19. Cyhoeddwyd

    SOA intensity modulator-enabled colourless transmission of adaptively modulated optical OFDM signals for WDM-PONs

    Wei, J. L., Yang, X. L., Giddings, R. P., Tang, J. M. & Shore, K. A., 2009, t. 1-2. 2 t.

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  20. Cyhoeddwyd

    Scalable parallel ultrafast optical random bit generation based on a single chaotic microcomb

    Li, P., Li, Q., Tang, W., Wang, W., Zhang, W., Little, B. E., Chu, S. T., Shore, K. A., Qin, Y. & Wang, Y., 5 Maw 2024, Yn: Light: Science & Applications. 13, 1, t. 66 1 t., 66.

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  21. Cyhoeddwyd

    Self-balanced real-time photonic scheme for ultrafast random number generation

    Li, P., Guo, Y., Guo, Y., Fan, Y., Guo, X., Liu, X., Shore, K. A., Dubrova, E., Xu, B., Wang, Y. & Wang, A., 30 Mai 2018, Yn: APL Photonics. 3, 6

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  22. Cyhoeddwyd

    Self-consistent analysis of carrier-transport and carrier-capture dynamics in quantum cascade intersubband semiconductor lasers

    Kalna, K., Cheung, C. Y., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2000, Yn: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 48, 4, t. 639-644

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  23. Cyhoeddwyd

    Self-consistent optical gain and threshold current calculations for near infrared intersubband semiconductor lasers.

    Cheung, C. Y., Rees, P., Shore, K. A. & Pierce, I., 1 Medi 2000, Yn: Journal of Modern Optics. 47, 11, t. 1857-1870

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  24. Cyhoeddwyd

    Semiconductor Lasers Subject to Frequency Modulated Optical Injection

    Shore, K. A., Fan, Y. & Hong, Y., 2 Ebr 2024, t. S24-33.

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  25. Cyhoeddwyd

    Side-mode resonance in a fabry-perot semiconductor laser with intermodal injection

    Hong, Y. H., Lawrence, J., Kane, D. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Medi 2000.

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