Professor Paul Spencer

Pro Vice-Chancellor [Research]

Contact info

Position: Dean of College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Professor

Email: p.spencer@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: (01248) 382738

Location: Room 145, Dean Street

 

Prof Paul S. Spencer received a B.Sc. degree in applied physics and a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Bath, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he was a research assistant at the University of Bath. In 1996, he moved to Bangor becoming a lecturer in 1998, a senior lecturer in 2003 and receiving a Personal Chair in 2006. In 2007 he was appointed Head of the School of Electronic Engineering, a post he held for seven years. In 2009 he was appointed Head of the College of Physical and Applied Sciences and in 2017 he was appointed Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

His main research interests are semiconductor laser dynamics, optical feedback effects, pulse propagation, and optical waveguide properties of optoelectronic devices. He has been an author on over 100 journal papers and 140 conference papers and is a regular reviewer archival journals. In 2000 he won the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) best engineering poster award.

  1. Published

    Polarization-switching of VCSELs under orthogonal optical feedback: experiments and theory

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 18 Jun 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  2. Published

    Polychromatic coupled cavity model of passive structures.

    Perkins, D., Spencer, P. S. & Rees, P., 1 Apr 2005, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 152, 2, p. 58-65

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    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. 569-570

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Pseudo Random Bit Sequence Transmission in Chaos Communication Channels.

    Lea, S. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Jan 2009.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  5. Published

    Quadrature detection method for determination of nonlinear modulation response of semiconductor laser diodes

    Perkins, D., Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  6. Published

    Relative intensity noise and polarisation stability of VCSELs subject to polarisation-resolved optical feedback

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  7. Published

    Root locus method for predicting the stability of laser diodes with optical feedback

    Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 8 Jun 2000, In: Electronics Letters. 36, 12, p. 1029-1031

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Rossler model for phase synchronisation in chaotic semiconductor laser systems with frequency selective coupling

    Pierce, I., Peters-Flynn, S. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Mar 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  9. Published

    Semiconductor lasers subject to incoherent optical feedback.

    Ju, R., Hong, Y., Pierce, I. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Apr 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. Published

    Semiconductor lasers subject to polarisation rotated optical feedback.

    Ju, R., Hong, Y. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Jan 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  11. Published

    Semiconductor lasers subject to polarisation-rotated optical feedback.

    Ju, R., Hong, Y. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Jun 2006, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 153, 3, p. 131-137

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Simple and accurate optical frequency domain ranging using off-the-shelf DFB lasers subject to frequency-shifted optical feedback

    Paul, J., Hong, Y., Spencer, P., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Nov 2007, In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 19, 21-24, p. 1708-1710

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Stabilisation of self-pulsation of VCSEL polarisation by optical injection

    Bandyopadhyay, S., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  14. Published

    Stabilization of Photonic Microwave Generation in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Optical Injection and Feedback

    Hong, Y., Ji, S., Xue, C., Valle, A., Spencer, P. & Li, H., 1 Oct 2018, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 36, 19, p. 4347-4353

    Research output: Contribution to journalSpecial issuepeer-review

  15. Published

    Statistical Investigations of the Transmission Performance of Adaptively Modulated Optical OFDM Signals in Multimode Fiber Links

    Jin, X. Q., Tang, J., Qiu, K. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Sept 2008, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 26, 17-20, p. 3216-3224

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Synchronisation of coupled VCSELs operating in the coherence collapse regime

    Ju, R., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  17. Published

    Synchronisation recovery in unidirectionally coupled semiconductor lasers

    Peters-Flynn, S., Pierce, I., Spencer, P. S. & Rees, P., 13 Feb 2006, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 153, 1, p. 8-12

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Synchronisation regimes in chaotic diode lasers.

    Pierce, I., Rees, P., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  19. Published

    Terahertz Relaxation Oscillations in Intersubband lasers.

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  20. Published

    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. 3210-3216

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    The influence of optical feedback on polarisation bistability in VCSELs.

    Hong, Y., Ju, R., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  22. Published

    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. 3688-3690

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Transmission Performance of Adaptively Modulated Optical OFDM Modems Using Subcarrier Modulation over Worst-Case Multimode Fibre Links

    Zheng, X., Tang, J. & Spencer, P. S., 10 Oct 2008, In: IEEE Communications Letters. 12, 10, p. 788-790

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Transverse Mode Dynamics of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers Subject to Polarized Optical Injection

    Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  25. Published

    Transverse mode dynamics of VCSELs subject to optical injection.

    Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper