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. Paper › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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    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

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    Experimental determination of message decoding quality in optical chaos communications using laser diode transmitters

    Spencer, P. S., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  5. Published

    Experimental study of dynamical hysteresis of turn-on and turn-off in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers.

    Hong, Y., Priyadarshi, S., Qader, A. A., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2010.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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    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

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    Extending the parameter space of anticipated synchronisation in laser diodes.

    Peters-Flynn, S., Pierce, I., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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    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

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    Frequency shifted feedback in DFB laser diodes.

    Paul, J., Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2008.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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    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

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    Hysteresis dependence on injection power and frequency detuning in bistable VCSELs

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper