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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    Dynamics and spectra of VCSELs subject to optical injection.

    Hong, Y. H., Bandyopadhyay, S., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Gorff 2002.

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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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    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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    Enhanced Flat Broadband Optical Chaos Using Low-Cost VCSEL and Fiber Ring Resonator

    Hong, Y., Chen, X., Spencer, P. & Shore, K., 6 Ion 2015, Yn: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 51, 3, t. 1200106

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    Enhanced chaos synchronization in unidirectionally coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers with polarization-preserved injection

    Hong, Y., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 15 Maw 2008, Yn: Optics Letters. 33, 6, t. 587-589

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    Enhancement of chaotic signal bandwidth in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with optical injection

    Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 22 Chwef 2012, Yn: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 29, 3, t. 415-419

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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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    Experimental determination of message decoding quality in optical chaos communications using laser diode transmitters

    Spencer, P. S., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Hyd 2004.

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    Experimental study of dynamical hysteresis of turn-on and turn-off in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers.

    Hong, Y., Priyadarshi, S., Qader, A. A., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ion 2010.

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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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    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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    Extending the parameter space of anticipated synchronisation in laser diodes.

    Peters-Flynn, S., Pierce, I., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2004.

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    Flat Broadband Chaos in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Subject to Chaotic Optical Injection

    Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Rhag 2012, Yn: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 48, 12, t. 1536-1541

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    Flat broadband chaos generation in a discrete-mode laser subject to optical feedback

    Chang, D., Zhong, Z., Tang, J., Spencer, P. & Hong, Y., 21 Rhag 2020, Yn: Optics Express. 28, 26, t. 39076-39083

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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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    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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    GHz Bandwidth Message Transmission Using Chaotic Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

    Hong, Y., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 15 Tach 2009, Yn: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 27, 22, t. 5099-5105

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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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    Hysteresis dependence on injection power and frequency detuning in bistable VCSELs

    Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2001.

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    Identification of the optimum time-delay for chaos synchronisation regimes of semiconductor lasers

    Peters-Flynn, S., Spencer, P. S., Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Ebr 2006.

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    Identification of the optimum time-delay for chaos synchronization regimes of semiconductor lasers

    Peters-Flynn, S., Spencer, P., Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I. & Shore, A., Ebr 2006, Yn: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 42, 4, t. 427-434

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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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