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

    GHz Bandwidth Message Transmission Using Chaotic Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

    Hong, Y., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 15 Nov 2009, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 27, 22, p. 5099-5105

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published
  3. Published

    Flat Broadband Chaos in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Subject to Chaotic Optical Injection

    Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2012, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 48, 12, p. 1536-1541

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Transverse mode dynamics of VCSELs subject to optical injection.

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

    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

  6. 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

  7. Published

    Enhanced Flat Broadband Optical Chaos Using Low-Cost VCSEL and Fiber Ring Resonator

    Hong, Y., Chen, X., Spencer, P. & Shore, K., 6 Jan 2015, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 51, 3, p. 1200106

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. 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

  9. Published

    Influence of low-frequency modulation on polarization switching of VCSELs subject to optical feedback

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2008, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 44, 1-2, p. 30-35

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 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

  11. Published

    Enhanced chaos synchronization in unidirectionally coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers with polarization-preserved injection

    Hong, Y., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 15 Mar 2008, In: Optics Letters. 33, 6, p. 587-589

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Concealment of Chaos Time-Delay Signature in Three-Cascaded Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

    Hong, Y., Quirce, A., Wang, B., Ji, S., Panajotov, K. & Spencer, P., 1 Aug 2016, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 52, 8

    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 Nov 2006, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 23, 11, p. 2285-2290

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. 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

  15. Published

    Transverse Mode Dynamics of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers Subject to Polarized Optical Injection

    Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  16. Published

    Anticorrelation polarization dynamics in VCSELs

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  17. Published

    Enhancement of chaotic signal bandwidth in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with optical injection

    Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 22 Feb 2012, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 29, 3, p. 415-419

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. 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

  19. Published

    Broad tunable photonic microwave generation based on period-one dynamics of optical injection vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Ji, S., Hong, Y., Spencer, P., Benedikt, J. & Davies, I., 21 Aug 2017, In: Optics Express. 25, 17, p. 19863-1871 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Statistical Investigations of the Transmission Performance of Adaptively Modulated Optical OFDM Signals in Multimode Fiber Links

    Jin, X. Q., Tang, J., Qiu, K. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Sept 2008, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 26, 17-20, p. 3216-3224

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Optimization of adaptively modulated optical OFDM modems for multimode fiber-based local area networks

    Jin, X., Tang, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2008, In: Journal of Optical Networking. 7, 3, p. 198-214

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Chaos and synchronization of self-pulsating laser diodes

    Jones, R. J., Rees, P., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Feb 2001, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 18, 2, p. 166-172

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. 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

  24. Published

    Cross polarisation synchronisation of chaotic laser diodes.

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  25. Published

    Dynamic regimes in semiconductor lasers subject to incoherent optical feedback

    Ju, R. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Aug 2005, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 23, 8, p. 2513-2523

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review