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

    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

  2. Published
  3. Published

    GHz bandwidth 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 conferencePaper

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Published

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

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  8. Published

    Optically modulated chaotic communication scheme using external-cavity length as a key to security

    Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2003, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 20, 3, p. 497-503

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. 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

  10. Published

    Experimental and theoretical study of dynamical hysteresis and scaling laws in the polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Paul, J., Masoller, C., Mandel, P., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2008, In: Physical Review A. 77, 4, p. 043803

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review