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)
- 2002
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Duality of existence conditions for synchronization of unidirectionally coupled chaotic external cavity semiconductor lasers.
Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 25 Mar 2002, In: Physics Letters A. 295, 4, p. 217-219Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optical injection dynamics of two-mode vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers.
Hong, Y. H., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2002, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 38, 3, p. 274-278Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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GHz bandwidth message transmission using chaotic diode lasers.
Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 3 Jan 2002, In: Electronics Letters. 38, 1, p. 28-29Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cavity length as a key to security in a chaotic optical communications system.
Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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
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Experimental observation of anti-phase polarisation dynamics in VCSELs.
Bandyopadhyay, S., Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2002, In: Optics Communications. 202, 1-3, p. 145-154Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synchronization regimes in chaotic semiconductor lasers.
Shore, K. A., Sivaprakasam, S., Shahverdiev, E. M., Spencer, P. S., Paul, J., Pierce, I. & Rees, P., 1 Jan 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Transition between anticipating and lag synchronization in chaotic external cavity laser diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2002, In: Optics Letters. 27, 14, p. 1250-1252Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2001
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Experimental demonstration of anticipating synchronization in chaotic semiconductor lasers with optical feedback.
Sivaprakasam, S., Shahverdiev, E. M., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 8 Oct 2001, In: Physical Review Letters. 87, 15, p. 154101Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anticipating synchronisation in chaotic external cavity laser diodes
Sivaprakasam, S., Shahverdiev, E. M., Spencer, P. 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 Sept 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Transverse mode dynamics of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers subject to optical injection
Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Threshold gain and threshold current analysis of circular grating DFB organic semiconductor lasers.
Barlow, G. F. & Shore, K. A., 1 Aug 2001, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 148, 4, p. 165-170Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Eavesdropping in all-optical data encryption using chaotic external-cavity diode lasers.
Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Experimental observation of anticipating chaotic synchronisation using external cavity laser diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S., Shahverdiev, E. M., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Ghz Bandwith message transmission using chaotic diode lasers.
Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Integrity of all-optical data encryption using chaotic external-cavity diode lasers.
Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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Anticipating synchronisation in chaotic external cavity laser diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S., Shahverdiev, E. M., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 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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Optical technology for chaotic communications.
Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2001.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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Enhanced performance of polarization-independent four-wave mixing in polarization-sensitive semiconductor optical amplifiers.
Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 May 2001, In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 13, 5, p. 496-498Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Picosecond optical pulses in mid-infared intersubband semiconductor optical amplifiers.
Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 May 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Power and frequency dependence of hysteresis in optically bistable injection-locked VCSELs.
Hong, Y., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 26 Apr 2001, In: Electronics Letters. 37, 9, p. 569-570Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cascaded synchronisation of chaotic semiconductor lasers
Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Design of unipolar near-infra-red intersubband lasers
Banjeree, S., Barlow, G. F. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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GHz bandwith message transmission using chaotic diode lasers
Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Synchronisation of chaotic semiconductor lasers with time delay
Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Synchronisation regimes in chaotic diodes lasers - effect of injected power
Pierce, I., Valle, A., Rees, P., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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A novel method for determination of the maximum stable feedback level in laser diodes.
Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 16 Mar 2001, In: International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields. 14, 4, p. 345-357Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cascaded synchronization of external-cavity laser diodes.
Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2001, In: Optics Letters. 26, 5, p. 253-255Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Electron transport process in quantum cascade intersubband semiconductor lasers.
Kalna, K., Cheung, C. Y. & Shore, K. A., 15 Feb 2001, In: Journal of Applied Physics. 89, p. 2001-2005Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chaos and synchronization of self-pulsating laser diodes
Jones, R. J., Rees, P., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Feb 2001, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 18, 2, p. 166-172Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Detuned side-mode injection for enhancing oscillation frequency of a semiconductor laser.
Jones, R. J., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Feb 2001, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 148, 1, p. 35-39Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Threshold current analysis of distributed feed-back organic semiconductor lasers.
Barlow, G. F. & Shore, K. A., 1 Feb 2001, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 148, 1, p. 2-6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Application of the argument principle method to the calculation of DFB laser diode modes.
Barlow, G. F. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2001, In: International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields. 14, 4, p. 291-302Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Polarization-insensitive optical spectral inversion without frequency shift based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers.
Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2001, In: Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. 3, p. 148-154Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Theoretical analysis of the effect of amplified luminescence on the modulation response of laser diodes.
Burov, L. I., Gribkosvkii, V. P., Grigelevich, P. S., Kramar, M. I., Ryabtsev, G. I., Shore, K. A., Voitikov, S. V. & Kragler, R., 1 Jan 2001, In: International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields. 14, 4, p. 331-343Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2000
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Broadcasting synchronization of chaotic laser diodes
Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Pump-power dependence of transparency characteristics in semiconductor optical amplifiers.
Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2000, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 36, 12, p. 1462-1467Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Quiet laser diodes
Shore, K. A. & Kane, D. M., 1 Dec 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Wavelet operators for nonlinear optical pulse propagation
Pierce, I., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2000, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision. 17, 12, p. 2431-2439Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Enhanced transmission of nonlinear optical loop mirrors using SOA's with robust transparency.
Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Nov 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Experimental verification of the synchronization condition for chaotic external cavity diode lasers.
Sivaprakasam, S., Shahverdiev, E. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Nov 2000, In: Physical Review E. 62, 5, p. 7505-7507Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Picosend optical pulse response of mid-infrared intersubband semiconductor optical amplifiers.
Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Nov 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Pure frequency-polarization bistability in vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers.
Hong, Y. H., Shore, K. A., Larsson, A., Ghisoni, M. & Halonen, J., 1 Nov 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper