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.
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.
Member of the UK Young Academy Membership Selection Committee 2023-2026
He is the Manager for Wales of the Alumni Association of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ( JSPS)
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Integrity of semiconductor laser chaotic communications to naive eavesdroppers.
Jones, R. J., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 15 Nov 2000, In: Optics Letters. 25, 22, p. 1663-1665Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction.
Kane, D. M., Shore, K. A. & Shore, K. A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2005, Unlocking Dynamical Diversity: Optical Feedback Effects on Semiconductor Lasers. 2005 ed. Wiley, p. 1-20Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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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Inverse chaos synchronization in linearly and nonlinearly coupled systems with multiple time-delays.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Hashimov, R. H., Nuriev, R. A., Hashimova, L. H., Huseynova, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Aug 2006, In: Chaos Solitons and Fractals. 29, 4, p. 838-844Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Inverse synchornisation in diode lasers.
Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Inverse synchronisation in semiconductor laser diodes
Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P., Shore, K. A. & Valle, A., 31 May 2001, In: Physical Review A. 64, 1, 013805.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investigation of polarization bistability in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers subjected to optical feedback
Hong, Y., Ju, R., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., May 2005, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 41, 5, p. 619-624Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lag chaos synchronisation in laser diodes subject to optical feedback
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2002.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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Laser diode chaos generation with double optical feedback
Lee, M. W. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Lasing Characteristics of VCSELs Subject to Circularly Polarized Optical Injection
Qader, A., Hong, Y. & Shore, K. A., 9 Nov 2011, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 29, 24, p. 3804-3809Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Leader-laggard synchronization of polarization chaos in mutually coupled free-running VCSELs
Zhang, X., Li, P., Jia, Z., Shore, K. A. & Wang, Y., 16 Jan 2023, In: Optics Express. 31, 2, p. 2414-2425 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lectures on astrophysics
Shore, K. A., 2 Jan 2020, In: Contemporary Physics. 61, 1, p. 59-60 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Low quantum noise laser diodes using high-finesse-cavities.
Shore, K. A. & Kane, D. M., 1 Jul 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Low-frequency modulation effects on the polarization dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers subject to optical feedback.
Hong, Y. H., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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. 655-660Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Maximizing the transmission performance of adaptively modulated optical OFDM signals in multimode-fiber links by optimizing analog-to-digital converters.
Tang, J., Tang, J. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2007, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 25, 3, p. 787-798Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mean spectral phase and detection of masked periodic signals in chaotic carriers
Murakami, A. & Shore, K. A., Jun 2011, In: IET Optoelectronics. 5, 3, p. 114-120Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mechanisms for inducing chaos in broad and narrow linewidth external cavity laser diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2000, In: Journal of Modern Optics. 47, 11, p. 1871-1875Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Message Encoding and Decoding using Chaotic External-cavity Diode Lasers.
Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2000, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 36, 1, p. 35-39Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Message Extraction using synchronised Chaotic Laser Diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Message decoding quality in laser diode based optical chaos communications.
Hong, Y., Lee, M. W. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2009.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Message extraction mechanism in optical chaos communications using injection-locked semiconductor lasers
Murakami, A. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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Mode hopping in a side-mode-injected semiconductor laser.
Hong, Y. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2000, In: Journal of Modern Optics. 47, 11, p. 1763-1769Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Modified long-range surface plasmon polariton modes for laser nanoresonators
Ikeda, K., Fainman, Y., Shore, K. A. & Kawaguchi, H., 1 Sept 2011, In: IEEE Journal of Applied Physics. 110, 6, p. 063106-063106-6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Modulated Mutually Coupled Nano-Lasers
Han, H. & Shore, K. A., Apr 2017, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 53, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Modulation format identification in fiber communications using single dynamical node-based photonic reservoir computing
Cai, Q., Guo, Y., Li, P., Bogris, A., Shore, K. A., Zhang, Y. & Wang, Y., 1 Jan 2021, In: Photon. Res.. 9, 1, p. B1-B8Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Multi-time and cascaded anticipation of chaos synchronisation
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Multi-time and cascaded anticipation of chaos synchronisation.
Shahverdiev, E. M., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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
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Nanoscale optical measurements of VCSEL transverse mode structure.
Hong, Y. H., Cambridge, J. A., Shore, K. A., Larsson, A., Carlsson, C. & Halonen, J., 1 Jul 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Network technologies for chaotic optical communications
Shore, K. A., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Hong, Y. H., Ju, R. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Aug 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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 Interband Cascade Laser Subjected to Optical Feedback
Han, H., Cheng, X., Jia, Z. & Shore, K. A., 2021, In: Photonics. 8, 9, 366.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Nonlinear dynamics of VCSELs subject to resonant modulation.
Torre, M. S., Masoller, C. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers with feedback and modulation.
Toomey, J. P., Kane, D. M., Lee, M. W. & Shore, K. A., 2 Aug 2010, In: Optics Express. 18, 16, p. 16955-16972Research 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
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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. 1397-1399Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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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. 25-30Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Observation of cascade complete-chaos synchronization with zero time lag in laser diodes.
Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Masoller, C. & Shore, K. A., 1 May 2006, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 23, 5, p. 846-851Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Observation of flat chaos generation using an optical feedback multi-mode laser with a band-pass filter: Optics Express
Li, P., Cai, Q., Zhang, J., Xu, B., Liu, Y., Bogris, A., Shore, K. A. & Wang, Y., 2019, In: Optics Express. 27, 13, p. 17859-17867 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Observation of flattened power spectrum of chaotic semiconductor laser using an optical filter
Han, H., Zhao, T., Wang, A. B., Wang, D. M., Wang, L. S., Wang, Y. C. & Shore, K. A., Jun 2019, In: IET Optoelectronics. 13, 3, p. 104-108 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Observation of inverse synchronization in chaotic diode lasers
Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Observation of strong CW room temperature and low temperature emission (1.56 um at 4K) in highly strained InGaAs/InAlAs QC structures operating under reverse operational bias
Mitchell, C. J., Sly, J. L., Missous, M., Banerjee, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Optical Frequency Comb Generation in Gain Switched Semiconductor Nanolasers With Optical Injection
Fan, Y., Shore, K. A. & Shao, X., 15 May 2024, In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 36, 10, p. 661-664 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optical Heterodyne Generation of High-Dimensional and Broadband White Chaos
Wang, A. B., Wang, B. J., Li, L., Wang, Y. C. & Shore, K. A., 28 Apr 2015, In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 21, 6, p. Article Number: 1800710Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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