Professor Paul Spencer
Pro Vice-Chancellor [Research]
Affiliations
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.
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Dynamics and spectra of VCSELs subject to optical injection.
Hong, Y. H., Bandyopadhyay, S., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Dynamics of laser diodes subject to partially coherent optical feedback
Ju, R., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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 conference › Paper
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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. 1200106Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 587-589Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 415-419Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 043803Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Experimental characterisation of chaos synchronisation in unidirectionally coupled VCSELs with polarisation preserved and polarisation selected optical injection
Hong, Y. H., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2008.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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 conference › Paper
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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 conference › Paper
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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 conference › Paper
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Experimental study of polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers as a dynamical bifurcation
Paul, J., Masoller, C., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 15 Mar 2006, In: Optics Letters. 31, 6, p. 748-750Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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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. 1536-1541Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Flat broadband chaos generation in a discrete-mode laser subject to optical feedback
Chang, D., Zhong, Z., Tang, J., Spencer, P. & Hong, Y., 21 Dec 2020, In: Optics Express. 28, 26, p. 39076-39083Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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Frequency domain analysis of the chaotic synchronization of injection-locked semiconductor lasers.
Lea, S. J. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Mar 2008, In: Optical and Quantum Electronics. 40, 2-4, p. 97-108Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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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. 5099-5105Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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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 conference › Paper
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Identification of the optimum time-delay for chaos synchronisation regimes of semiconductor lasers
Peters-Flynn, S., Spencer, P. S., Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Identification of the optimum time-delay for chaos synchronization regimes of semiconductor lasers
Peters-Flynn, S., Spencer, P., Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I. & Shore, A., Apr 2006, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 42, 4, p. 427-434Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 1987-1994Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper