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)
- 2002
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Threshold gain analysis of multiple section polymer CG-DFB lases
Barlow, G. F. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Experimental conditions for anticipating chaotic synchronisation in external cavity laser diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 May 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Polarization-resolved chaos in VCSEL subject to optical injection.
Hong, Y. H., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 May 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Anticipating synchronisation in coupled chaotic diode lasers
Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Chaos synchronization with coupling-delay lag time in laser diodes subject to optical feedback
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Dual and Dual-Cross synchronization in chaotic systems.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Inverse anticipating chaos synchronization.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2002, In: Physical Review E. 66, 1, p. 017204Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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Regimes of synchronisation in chaotic optical communication systems.
Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J. & Shore, K. A., 1 Aug 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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
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Lag times and parameter mismatches in synchronization of unidirectionally coupled chaotic external cavity semiconductor lasers.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2002, In: Physical Review E. 66, 3, p. 037202Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Regimes of chaotic synchronization in external-cavity laser diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2002, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 38, 9, p. 1155-1161Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Noise characteristics of a single-mode laser diode subject to strong optical feedback.
Hong, Y. H., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2002, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 20, 10, p. 1847-1850Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Nonlinear dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with weak optical feedback and injection-current modulation
Masoller, C., Mandel, P., Shore, K. A. & Torre, M. S., 1 Dec 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- 2003
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Chaotic data encryption using semiconductor laser diodes.
Rees, P., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Paul, J., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2003, p. 4995-27.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Design and fabrication of a 2um quantum cascade laser
Banerjee, S., Spencer, P. S., Barlow, G. F., Shore, K. A., Mitchell, C. J. & Missous, M., 1 Jan 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Synchronization regimes in chaotic optical communication systems.
Pierce, I., Valle, A., Sivaprakasam, S., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2003, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 150, 2, p. 191-198Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dual and dual-cross synchronizations in chaotic systems.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Feb 2003, In: Optics Communications. 216, 1-3, p. 179-183Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Polarisation-resolved chaos and instabilities in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser subject to optical injection.
Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S., Bandyyopadhyay, S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Feb 2003, In: Optics Communications. 216, 1-3, p. 185-189Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 Mar 2003, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 20, 3, p. 497-503Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Analysis of the transverse-mode dynamics of directly-modulated vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with weak optical feedback
Shore, K. A., Torre, M. S., Masoller, C. & Mandel, P. S., 1 Apr 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Concurrent synchronisation of chaotic external cavity laser diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Coupled cavity multi-mode model of laser diode subject to optical feedback
Perkins, D., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper