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

    Coupled cavity multi-mode model of laser diodes subject to optical feedback.

    Perkins, D., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  2. Published

    Determination of nonlinear modulation response of semiconductor laser diodes by quadrature detection

    Perkins, D., Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Shore, K. A. & Valle, A., 1 Sept 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  3. 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

  4. Published

    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. 427-434

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Published

    Synchronisation recovery in unidirectionally coupled semiconductor lasers

    Peters-Flynn, S., Pierce, I., Spencer, P. S. & Rees, P., 13 Feb 2006, In: IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics. 153, 1, p. 8-12

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    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 conferencePaper

  9. Published

    Synchronisation regimes in chaotic diode lasers.

    Pierce, I., Rees, P., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. 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

  11. Published

    Root locus method for predicting the stability of laser diodes with optical feedback

    Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 8 Jun 2000, In: Electronics Letters. 36, 12, p. 1029-1031

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Anticipated chaos in a nonsymmetric coupled external-cavity-laser system.

    Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I., Sivaprakasam, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Sept 2003, In: Physical Review A. 68, 3, p. 033818

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Optical chaos communications

    Shore, K. A., Hong, Y., Lee, M. W., Pierce, I., Paul, J. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Aug 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  14. 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

  15. Published

    Inverse synchronisation in semiconductor laser diodes

    Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P., Shore, K. A. & Valle, A., 31 May 2001, In: Physical Review A. 64, 1, 013805.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Anticipating synchronization in a bi-directional laser diode configuration.

    Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  17. Published

    Integrity of all-optical data encryption using chaotic external-cavity diode lasers.

    Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  18. 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

  19. Published

    Communicating with Chaos.

    Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I., Spencer, P. S., Jones, R. J., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  20. Published

    Concurrent synchronisation of chaotic external cavity laser diodes.

    Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  21. Published

    Optical Feedback Applications.

    Spencer, P. S., 1 May 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  22. Published

    Nullified time-of-flight lead-lag in synchronisation of chaotic external cavity laser diodes

    Spencer, P. S., Sivaprakasam, S. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 14 Oct 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  23. 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

  24. Published

    Modeling polarization competition in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with current modulation

    Spencer, P. S., Torre, M. S., Masoller, C. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  25. Published

    Chaos synchronisation and communication.

    Spencer, P. S., Shore, K. A., Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I., Peters-Flynn, S., Ju, R., Paul, J., Lee, M. W. & Rees, P., 1 Aug 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper