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.
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)
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Tailoring the Direct Current Modulation Response of Electrically Pumped Semiconductor Nano-Laser Arrays
Fan, Y., An, S., Shore, K. A. & Shao, X., 14 Dec 2023, In: Photonics. 10, 12, 1373.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tbps parallel random number generation based on a single quarter-wavelength-shifted DFB laser
Cai, Q., Li, P., Shi, Y., Jia, Z., Ma, L., Xu, B., Chen, X., Shore, K. A. & Wang, Y., Jul 2023, In: Optics and Laser Technology. 162, p. 109273 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Terahertz pulse generation and detection with LT-GaAs photoconductive antenna
Zhang, J., Hong, Y., Braunstein, S. L. & Shore, K. A., 26 Apr 2004, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 151, 2, p. 98-101Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The effects of polarization-resolved optical feedback on the relative intensity noise and polarization stability of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 7 Aug 2006, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 24, 8, p. 3210-3216Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The relative intensity noise of a semiconductor laser subject to strong coherent optical feedback.
Ju, R., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Aug 2004, In: Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. 6, 8, p. S775-S779Research 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
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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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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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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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Time Delay Signature Extraction of Optical-Feedback-Induced Chaos With Reservoir Computing
Kai, C., Li, P., Wang, B., Shore, K. A., Qin, Y. W. & Wang, Y., Nov 2023, In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 29, 6: Photonic Signal Processing, p. 1-7 7 p.Research 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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Time-delay signature suppression in delayed-feedback semiconductor lasers as a paradigm for feedback control in complex physiological networks
Hong, Y., Zhong, Z. & Shore, K. A., 11 Jan 2024, In: Frontiers in Network Physiology. 3, 1330375.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Transmission performance of adaptively modulated optical OFDM signals in multimode fiber links.
Tang, J. M., Lane, P. M. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2006, In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 18, 1-4, p. 205-207Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Transverse-mode dynamics in directly modulated vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with optical feedback
Torre, M. S., Masoller, C., Mandel, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jun 2004, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 40, 6, p. 620-628Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tunable quantum cascade lasers with phase-matched third harmonic generation
Banerjee, S., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 3 Aug 2006, In: Applied Physics Letters. 89, 5, p. 051113Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Two-mode chaos synchronization using a multimode external-cavity laser diode and two single-mode laser diodes.
Lee, M. W. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2005, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 23, 3, p. 1068-1073Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ultrafast Fully Photonic Random Bit Generator
Li, P., Guo, Y., Guo, Y., Fan, Y., Guo, X., Liu, X., Li, K., Shore, K. A., Wang, Y. & Wang, A., 15 Jun 2018, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 36, 12, p. 2531-2540Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ultrafast Optical packet switching using low Optical pulse energies in a self-synchronization scheme.
Tang, J. M., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2000, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 18, 12, p. 1757-1764Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ultrafast and real-time physical random bit extraction with all-optical quantization
Guo, Y., Cai, Q., Li, P., Zhang, R., Xu, B., Shore, K. A. & Wang, Y., May 2022, In: Advanced Photonics. 4, 3, 8 p., 035001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ultrashort pulse generation in a semiconductor laser with strong coherent optical feedback
Fan, Y., Shore, K. A. & Hong, Y., Feb 2019, In: IET Optoelectronics. 13, 1, p. 36-39Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Upper bound on the generation rate for nondeterministic random bits in a chaotic laser system
Zhao, Y., Li, P., Yuan, H., Guo, C., Shore, K. A., Qin, Y. & Wang, Y., Sept 2024, In: Chaos Solitons and Fractals. 186, 115275.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 2395-2404Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Wavelength switching by positively detuned side-mode injection in semiconductor lasers.
Hong, Y. H., Shore, K. A., Lawrence, J. S. & Kane, D. M., 29 May 2000, In: Applied Physics Letters. 76, 22, p. 3170-3172Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review