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. 2007
  2. Published

    Optical frequency-domain ranging using a frequency-shifted feedback distributed-feedback laser.

    Paul, J., Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2007, In: IET Optoelectronics. 1, 6, p. 277-279

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. 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

  4. Published

    Impact of orthogonal optical feedback on the polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Aug 2007, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 24, 8, p. 1987-1994

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published
  6. 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

  7. Published

    Impact of polarization rotated feedback on polarization switching in VCSELs.

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  8. Published

    Modeling polarization competition in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with current modulation

    Spencer, P. S., Torre, M. S., Masoller, C. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  9. Published

    Frequency domain analysis of the chaotic synchronization of injection-locked semiconductor lasers

    Lea, S. & Spencer, P. S., 28 Mar 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. 2006
  11. Published

    Optical Chaos Communications using Laser Diodes.

    Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Hong, Y., Pierce, I., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 21 Nov 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  12. Published

    Optical feedback dependence of anticorrelation polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Nov 2006, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 23, 11, p. 2285-2290

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Optical feedback dependence of anticorrelation polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  14. Published

    Anticorrelation polarization dynamics in VCSELs

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 11 Sept 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  15. Published

    Bias-current dependence of anticorrelation polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with long external cavity

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 21 Aug 2006, In: Applied Physics Letters. 89, 8, p. 081123

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. 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

  17. Published

    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. 051113

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Chaos synchronisation and communication.

    Spencer, P. S., Shore, K. A., Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I., Peters-Flynn, S., Ju, R., Paul, J., Lee, M. W. & Rees, P., 1 Aug 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  19. Published

    Optical chaos communications

    Shore, K. A., Hong, Y., Lee, M. W., Pierce, I., Paul, J. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Aug 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  20. 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

  21. Published

    Effect of bias current sweep rate on the polarisation switch point of VCSELs.

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  22. Published

    Identification of the optimum time-delay for chaos synchronisation regimes of semiconductor lasers

    Peters-Flynn, S., Spencer, P. S., Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  23. Published

    Influence of optical feedback on anticorrelation polarisation dynamics in VCSELs

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  24. 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

  25. Published

    Identification of the optimum time-delay for chaos synchronization regimes of semiconductor lasers

    Peters-Flynn, S., Spencer, P., Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I. & Shore, A., Apr 2006, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 42, 4, p. 427-434

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Experimental study of polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers as a dynamical bifurcation

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 15 Mar 2006, In: Optics Letters. 31, 6, p. 748-750

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  27. 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