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)
- 2015
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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
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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
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Enhanced Flat Broadband Optical Chaos Using Low-Cost VCSEL and Fiber Ring Resonator
Hong, Y., Chen, X., Spencer, P. & Shore, K., 6 Jan 2015, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 51, 3, p. 1200106Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2014
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CApability Matrix for Photonics Up-Skilling (CAMPUS)
Shore, K. A., 17 Jul 2014, p. Article number 928905.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Getting Light to Work - photonics up-skilling for industry
Davies, R. & Shore, K. A., 17 Jul 2014, p. Article number 928924.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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
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Experimental Study of Time-Delay Signatures in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Subject to Double-Cavity Polarization-Rotated Optical Feedback
Lin, Y., Hong, Y. & Shore, K. A., 1 May 2014, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 32, 9, p. 1829-1836Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Wideband Chaos With Time-Delay Concealment in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers With Optical Feedback and Injection
Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 5 Feb 2014, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 50, 4, p. 236-242Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2013
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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
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Experimental Investigations of Time-Delay Signature Concealment in Chaotic External Cavity VCSELs Subject to Variable Optical Polarization-Angle of Feedback.
Priyadarshi, S., Hong, Y., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2013, In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 19, 4, p. 1700707Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Role of Suppressed Mode in the Polarization Switching Characteristics of Optically Injected VCSELs
Qader, A. A., Hong, Y. & Shore, K. A., 1 Feb 2013, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 49, 2, p. 205-210Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2012
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Flat Broadband Chaos in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Subject to Chaotic Optical Injection
Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2012, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 48, 12, p. 1536-1541Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optimal operating conditions for external cavity semiconductor laser optical chaos communication system
Priyadarshi, S., Pierce, I., Hong, Y. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2012, In: Semiconductor Science and Technology. 27, 9, p. 094002Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Enhancement of chaotic signal bandwidth in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with optical injection
Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 22 Feb 2012, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 29, 3, p. 415-419Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2011
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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
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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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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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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
- 2010
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1-GHz all-optical flip-flop operation of conventional cylindrical-shaped single-mode VCSELs under low-power optical injection.
Lee, S. H., Jung, H. W., Kim, K. H., Lee, M. H., Yo, B. S., Roh, J. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2010, In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 22, 23, p. 1759-1761Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Thermal effects and dynamical hysteresis in the turn-on and turn-off vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers.
Hong, Y., Masoller, C., Torre, M. S., Priyadarshi, S., Qader, A. A., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Nov 2010, In: Optics Letters. 35, 21, p. 3688-3690Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An extended Kalman filtering approach to nonlinear time-delay systems: application to chaotic secure communications.
Hugues-Salas, O. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2010, In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 57, 9, p. 2520-2530Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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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