Professor K. Alan Shore
Emeritus Professor
![](https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/7852092/Shore_Alan.gif)
Affiliations
Contact info
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.
Admitted to Gorsedd y Beirdd Urdd Derwydd y Wisg Wen ( Gorsedd of the Bards, Druidic Order of the White Robes), National Eisteddfod of Wales, Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2024
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)
- Published
Data encryption using synchronized chaotic laser diodes
Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I., Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J. & Shore, K. A., 1 Aug 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Bandwidth limitations of chaotic data encryption.
Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I., Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2002, p. 4876-25.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Anticipated chaos in a non-symmetric coupled external cavity laser system
Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Anticipated chaos in a nonsymmetric coupled external-cavity-laser system.
Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2003, In: Physical Review A. 68, 3, p. 033818Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Bleaching effect in passive regions of powerful 1.02 mu m InGaAs/AlGaAs DQW laser diodes with ridged waveguide structure.
Ryabtsev, G. I., Bezyazychnaya, T. V., Bogdanovich, M. V., Parastchuk, V. V., Yenzhyieuski, A. I., Burov, L. I., Gorbatsevich, A. S., Ryabtsev, A. G., Shchemelev, M. A., Bezotosnyi, V. V., Shore, K. A. & Banerjee, S., 1 Mar 2008, In: Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics. 90, 3-4, p. 471-476Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Multi-interface roughness effects on electron mobility in a Ga0.5In0.5P/GaAs multisubband coupled quantum well structure.
Sahu, T. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2009, In: Semiconductor Science and Technology. 24, 9, p. 095021Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Effect of electric field on low temperature multisubband electron mobility in a coupled Ga0.5In0.5P/GaAs quantum well structure.
Sahu, T. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2010, In: Journal of Applied Physics. 107, 11, p. 113708Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Microstructures polymer lasers
Samuel, I. D., Turnbull, G. A., Lawrence, J. R., Barlow, G. F., Andrew, P., Krauss, T. F., Barnes, W. L. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Optical Injection Effects in Nanolasers
Sattar, Z. A., Kamel, N. A. & Shore, K. A., Feb 2016, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 52, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Direct current modulation properties of semiconductor nano-lasers: Small signal and large signal regimes
Sattar, Z. A. & Shore, K. A., 10 Jul 2014, p. 967-969.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
External Optical Feedback Effects in Semiconductor Nanolasers
Sattar, Z. A. & Shore, K. A., 4 Mar 2015, In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 21, 6, p. 1-6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Analysis of the Direct Modulation Response of Nanowire Lasers
Sattar, Z. A. & Shore, K. A., 9 Apr 2015, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 33, 44, p. 3028 - 3033Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Design optimisation of metallic sub-wavelength nanowire lasers
Satter, Z. A., Shore, K. A. & Wang, Z., 10 Apr 2014, In: IET Optoelectronics. 8, 2, p. 129-136Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Wave-Guiding Analysis of Annular Core Geometry Metal-Clad Semiconductor Nano-Lasers
Satter, Z. A., Shore, K. A. & Wang, Z., 20 Nov 2013, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 50, 1, p. 15-22Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Physics and applications of laser diode chaos
Sciamanna, M. & Shore, K. A., 27 Feb 2015, In: Nature Photonics. 9, 3, p. 151-162Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Polarization dynamics in VCSELs subject to optical injection
Sciamanna, M., Panajotov, K., Monticelli, G., Tabaka, A., Thienpoint, I., Veretennicoff, P., Megret, P., Blondel, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Hong, Y. H. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Synchronization in multiple time delay chaotic laser diodes subject to incoherent optical feedbacks and incoherent optical injection
Shahverdiev, E., Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2011, In: Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications. 12, 6, p. 3114-3124Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Multiplex chaos synchronization in semiconductor lasers with multiple optoelectronic feedbacks
Shahverdiev, E., Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2013, In: Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics. 124, 12, p. 1350-1353Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Dual-time and cascaded anticipation of chaos synchronisation.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Time-delay hyperchaos synchronisation and implications forlaser subject to optical feedback.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Parameter mismatches and perfect anticipating synchronization in bidirectionally coupled external cavity laser diodes.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2002, In: Physical Review E. 66, 1, p. 017206Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Synchronization regimes in chaotic multiple time delay external cavity semiconductor lasers.
Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Cascaded synchronisation of multiple timedelay electro-optical semiconductor lasers
Shahverdiev, E. M., Hashimova, L. H., Hashimova, N. T., Qocayeva, M. & Shore, K. A., 16 Dec 2008, In: IET Optoelectronics. 2, 6, p. 216-222Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Generalised synchronisation in laser devices with electro-optical feedback.
Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2009, In: IET Optoelectronics. 3, 6, p. 274-282Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Time-delay hyperchaos synchronisation and implications for laserdiodes subject to optical feedback.
Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Feb 2001, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 148, 1, p. 46-48Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review