Optical Physics (power) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 53 Optical Physics (power) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Next generation high power fibre lasers in the visible and ultraviolet wavelength bands

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

A fully funded PhD project with a stipend of £23,600 (tax-free) p.a. is available to investigate novel concepts for high power lasers operating in the visible and ultraviolet (UV) wavelength bands. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Clarkson, Dr J I MacKenzie

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Power scaling strategies for continuous-wave and short pulse fibre lasers operating in the two-micron wavelength band

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Andy Clarkson and Dr Jacob Mackenzie. Project description. A fully funded PhD project with a stipend of £23,600 (tax-free) p.a. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Clarkson

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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High-power Fibre Lasers for Visible Wavelengths

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof Jayanta Sahu and Prof Johan Nilsson. Project description. Visible lasers are indispensable for applications such as display, underwater communication, microscopy, bio-photonics, optical storage, and materials processing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Sahu

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Spatial Effects in High-Power Fibre Lasers and Amplifiers

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Peter Horak, Prof Michalis Zervas . Project Description. We are looking for a PhD student to work on the design and numerical simulation of the next generation of high-power fibre lasers. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Horak

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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High power laser plasma acceleration – making accelerators smaller, cheaper, better

University of Liverpool Cockcroft Institute

Applications are invited for a fully funded studentship from Oct 2024 in laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (LWFA). Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Corner

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Hybrid Energy Harvester Based on Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells and Triboelectric Nanogenerator

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

Recent advances in energy harvesting using photovoltaic and triboelectric effects demonstrate outstanding performances of energy harvesters as power supplies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B Hou, Prof P M Smowton

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Inspection of nuclear fusion components in high temperature using laser induced ultrasound phase arrays

University of Strathclyde Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

This PhD project will face the challenges of ultrasonic imaging of nuclear fusion components using lasers to generate and detect ultrasound, remotely and in a series of environmental conditions with respect to temperature for the first time. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Stratoudaki, Prof S.G. Pierce

30 September 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Artificial Intelligence to Transform Optical Fibre Design

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Greg Jasion, Dr Greg Jackson, Prof. Francesco Poletti. Project description. PhD Position. AI-Driven Design of Hollow Core Optical Fibres. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Jasion

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Wavelength-flexible, Single-frequency Fibre Lasers

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Morten Ibsen, Jayanta Sahu. Project Description. Fibre lasers have seen a rapid development in output power and performance over the past three decades and have revolutionised the application space for photonics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Ibsen

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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High power laser development

University of Liverpool School of Engineering

This PhD project will contribute to a major Ministry of Defence (MoD) research programme intended to develop generation after next technologies for applications in defence and security, and is co-funded by Qinetiq. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Corner

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Generation after next fibre lasers for defence and security applications

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Andy Clarkson and Dr Jacob Mackenzie. Project description. A fully funded PhD project with a stipend of £23,600 (tax-free) p.a. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Clarkson

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Innovative and manufacturable approaches to exploiting low cost-per-Watt diode-laser pumping of Ti:sapphire

University of Strathclyde Institute of Photonics

Summary of Project. Titanium sapphire lasers are an enabling scientific and industrial tool across applications from biological imaging to quantum technologies. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Kemp, Dr J Hastie

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Fibre Laser Based Mid Infrared Sources and their Applications

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Lin Xu, Dr Yongmin Jung . Project Description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Xu

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Phased array fibre lasers with machine learning

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof Johan Nilsson, Dr William Kerridge-Johns. Project description. This project combines state of the art optical fibre laser amplifiers with machine learning control to produce next-generation lasers. Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Nilsson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Mid-infrared Laser Amplifiers for Tomographic Imaging of Chemical Species in Gas Turbine Combustion and Green Aviation

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof Johan Nilsson, Prof Jayanta Sahu . Project description. University of Southampton is seeking a committed candidate for laser research towards green aviation and net-zero carbon emission from gas turbines within the LITECS programme. Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Nilsson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 53 Optical Physics (power) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Optical Physics (power) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 53 Optical Physics (power) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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