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

    Photonic biosensors in detection of Haemoglobin and DNA: Invited Paper

    Chen, X., Burt, J. & Spencer, P., 2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  2. Published

    Polarization-preserved and polarization-rotated synchronization of chaotic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Ju, R., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2005, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 41, 12, p. 1461-1467

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Polarization-resolved chaos in a VCSEL subject to optical injection.

    Hong, Y. H., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 May 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  4. Published

    Polarization-resolved chaos in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser subject to optical injection

    Hong, Y. H., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Bandyopadhyay, S., 1 Oct 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  5. Published

    Polarization-resolved chaos in optically injected VCSELs.

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  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

    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

  8. 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

  9. Published

    Pseudo Random Bit Sequence Transmission in Chaos Communication Channels.

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. 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