Professor Paul Spencer

Dirprwy Is-ganghellor (Ymchwil)

Contact info

Position: Dean of College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Professor

Email: p.spencer@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: (01248) 382738

Location: Room 145, Dean Street

 

Prof Paul S. Spencer received a B.Sc. degree in applied physics and a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Bath, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he was a research assistant at the University of Bath. In 1996, he moved to Bangor becoming a lecturer in 1998, a senior lecturer in 2003 and receiving a Personal Chair in 2006. In 2007 he was appointed Head of the School of Electronic Engineering, a post he held for seven years. In 2009 he was appointed Head of the College of Physical and Applied Sciences and in 2017 he was appointed Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

His main research interests are semiconductor laser dynamics, optical feedback effects, pulse propagation, and optical waveguide properties of optoelectronic devices. He has been an author on over 100 journal papers and 140 conference papers and is a regular reviewer archival journals. In 2000 he won the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) best engineering poster award.

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    Polarization-preserved and polarization-rotated synchronization of chaotic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Ju, R., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Rhag 2005, Yn: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 41, 12, t. 1461-1467

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    Incoherent optical feedback regimes in semiconductor lasers: Theory and Experiment

    Ju, R., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2004.

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    Synchronisation of coupled VCSELs operating in the coherence collapse regime

    Ju, R., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2004.

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    Dynamics of laser diodes subject to partially coherent optical feedback

    Ju, R., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2003.

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    Cross polarisation synchronisation of chaotic laser diodes.

    Ju, R. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Maw 2005.

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    Dynamic regimes in semiconductor lasers subject to incoherent optical feedback

    Ju, R. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Awst 2005, Yn: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 23, 8, t. 2513-2523

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    Frequency domain analysis of the chaotic synchronization of injection-locked semiconductor lasers.

    Lea, S. J. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Maw 2008, Yn: Optical and Quantum Electronics. 40, 2-4, t. 97-108

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    Analysis of Experimental Data from a Chaos Communication Channel.

    Lea, S. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Ion 2009.

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    Pseudo Random Bit Sequence Transmission in Chaos Communication Channels.

    Lea, S. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Ion 2009.

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    Optical Chaos Communications using Laser Diodes.

    Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Hong, Y., Pierce, I., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 21 Tach 2006.

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    Experimental study of polarisation switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers as a dynamical bifurcation

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Rhag 2005.

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    GHz bandwidth message transmission using chaotic diode lasers.

    Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2001.

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    Polarization-switching of VCSELs under orthogonal optical feedback: experiments and theory

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 18 Meh 2007.

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    Optical frequency-domain ranging using a frequency-shifted feedback distributed-feedback laser.

    Paul, J., Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Rhag 2007, Yn: IET Optoelectronics. 1, 6, t. 277-279

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    Frequency shifted feedback in DFB laser diodes.

    Paul, J., Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2008.

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    Optically modulated chaotic communication scheme using external-cavity length as a key to security

    Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Maw 2003, Yn: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 20, 3, t. 497-503

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    Experimental study of polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers as a dynamical bifurcation

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 15 Maw 2006, Yn: Optics Letters. 31, 6, t. 748-750

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    Experimental and theoretical study of dynamical hysteresis and scaling laws in the polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Mandel, P., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2008, Yn: Physical Review A. 77, 4, t. 043803

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    Simple and accurate optical frequency domain ranging using off-the-shelf DFB lasers subject to frequency-shifted optical feedback

    Paul, J., Hong, Y., Spencer, P., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Tach 2007, Yn: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 19, 21-24, t. 1708-1710

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    Impact of orthogonal optical feedback on the polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Awst 2007, Yn: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 24, 8, t. 1987-1994

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    Impact of polarization rotated feedback on polarization switching in VCSELs.

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2007.

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    Effect of bias current sweep rate on the polarisation switch point of VCSELs.

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2006.

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    Polychromatic coupled cavity model of passive structures.

    Perkins, D., Spencer, P. S. & Rees, P., 1 Ebr 2005, Yn: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 152, 2, t. 58-65

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