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. 2003
  2. Published

    Laser diode chaos generation with double optical feedback

    Lee, M. W. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  3. Published
  4. Published

    Polarization-resolved RIN of VCSELs under isotropic optical feedback

    Bandyopadhyay, S., Sivaprakasam, S., Hong, Y. H. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  5. Published

    Quantum noise penalty in laser diode arrays.

    Shore, K. A. & Kane, D. M., 1 Apr 2003, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 150, 2, p. 163-166

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Tera-Hertz relaxation oscillations in intersubband lasers

    Banerjee, S., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  7. Published

    Effects of current modulation on the transverse-mode dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with weak optical feedback

    Torre, M. S., Masoller, C., Mandel, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  8. Published

    Emission characteristics of polymer circular grating distributed feed-back lasers

    Barlow, G. F. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  9. Published

    Enhanced intensity fluctuations in a laser diode subject to optical feedback

    Hong, Y. H., Masoller, C., Ju, R., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. Published

    Experimental demonstration of a simple technique for highly efficient polarisation insensitive wavelength conversion using semiconductor optical amplifier

    Bandyopadhyay, S., Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  11. Published

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

    Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  12. Published

    Polarisation independent spectral inversion without frequency shift in a semiconductor optical amplifier

    Hong, Y. H., Bandyopadhyay, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  13. 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 conferencePaper

  14. Published

    Quantum noise properties of laser diode arrays

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  15. Published

    MIR and NIR nonlinear optical processing using intersubband x(3) in triple quantum well structures.

    Banerjee, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2003, In: Semiconductor Science and Technology. 18, 7, p. 655-660

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Nullified time-of-flight lead-lag in synchronization of chaotic external-cavity laser diodes.

    Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 15 Aug 2003, In: Optics Letters. 28, 16, p. 1397-1399

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. 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. 033818

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Polarization-independent optical spectral inversion without frequency shift using a single semiconductor optical amplifier.

    Hong, Y. H., Bandyopadhyay, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2003, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 39, 9, p. 1123-1128

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Chaotic data encryption for optical communications

    Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  20. Published

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

    Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  21. Published

    Nullified time-of-flight lead-lag synchronisation of chaotic external cavity laser diodes

    Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  22. Published

    Terahertz self-pulsations inintersubband lasers

    Banerjee, S., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  23. Published

    VCSEL polarization control by optical injection

    Bandyopadhyay, S., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2003, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 21, 10, p. 2395-2404

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Chaotic message broadcasting using DFB laser diodes

    Lee, M. W., Paul, J. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  25. Published

    Wavelength division multiplexing of chaotic external cavity semiconductor lasers

    Paul, J. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  26. 2004
  27. Published

    Numerical study of optical injection dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers.

    Torre, M. S., Masoller, C. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2004, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 40, 1, p. 25-30

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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