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. 2005
  2. Published

    Cross polarisation synchronisation of chaotic laser diodes.

    Ju, R. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Mar 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  3. Published

    Design of Tunable Intersubband Semiconductor Lasers.

    Banerjee, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  4. Published

    Partial bi-directional coupling of chaotic diode lsers for secure optical communication

    Sivaprakasam, S., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 2004
  8. Published

    Chaotic communications with external cavity laser diode.

    Shore, K. A., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Hong, Y., Torre, M., Masoller, M., Ju, R. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Dec 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  9. Published

    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

  10. Published

    Consequences of optical fibre propagation on chaotic data masking using laser diodes

    Peters-Flynn, S., Pierce, I., Rees, P. & Spencer, P. S., 1 May 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  11. Published

    Analysis of spatial field profile in integrated external cavity diode lasers.

    Causa, F., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Sarma, J., 1 Apr 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  12. Published

    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