People | CIM-Laser

Centre Director
Laser precision machining; Adaptive optics in laser manufacturing processes; Laser micro-joining processes; Delivery of high peak power laser light through novel optical fibres (with applications in manufacturing and medicine), Optical sensing.
D.P.Hand@hw.ac.uk

Additive Manufacturing; Laser and laser-arc hybrid welding; Nanosecond pulsed laser processing; Research is focused on developing fundamental scientific understanding and engineering principles. These are then applied to a wide range of industrial applications.
s.williams@cranfield.ac.uk

Laser processing using short pulse duration lasers, Cold gas dynamic manufacturing, Stereolithography of anatomical phantoms, Selective laser sintering of medical devices, Production of controlled release oral dosages and Selective laser melting.
c.sutcliffe@liverpool.ac.uk

Flexible and reconfigurable production technologies; Laser beam monitoring and control; Ultrafast laser matter interactions; Dynamics of micro and macro laser cutting; Rapid manufacturing technologies; Ultrahigh velocity particulate impacts; Nanoscale fabrication technologies; Engineering systems for synthetic biological applications; Micro engineered medical therapeutics.
wo207@eng.cam.ac.uk

Diode-pumped solid-state lasers and devices in the near and mid-infrared spectral range; Power and energy scaling; Applications where these lasers are used.
M.J.D.Esser@hw.ac.uk

High power diode lasers, used directly or as pump units for solid-state lasers; Laser direct-writing techniques in optics manufacture; Application of laser-cut optics in the general area of high average power industrial diode lasers; Ceramic technology research on vacuum sintered, transparent laser materials for solid-state laser amplifiers and laser-machined LTTC ceramic substrate technology for diode laser packaging.
H.J.Baker@hw.ac.uk

Application of laser in joining of dissimilar metallic combinations; Creation of functional surface layers and structures using arc and laser based heat sources; Application of laser shock peening to improve structural integrity of a component.
s.ganguly@cranfield.ac.uk

Optical and fibre-optic techniques for measurement and instrumentation; Novel multicore fibres for structural monitoring, vibration and acceleration measurement; Microstructured fibres for gas sensing applications; Microfabricating sensor elements directly onto the end of optical fibres using laser processing and focussed ion beam machining; Techniques to embed sensors into Additive manufactured components for asset lifetime monitoring.
W.N.MacPherson@hw.ac.uk

Fibre optic sensing technology in engineering; Laser based additive layer manufacturing technology (ALM or 3D printing) using metal powders; Fibre Bragg gratings and Fabry-Perot based sensors; 3D printing technologies for metals; laser based manufacturing aimed at glass and ceramic materials and on-line analysis of laser ablation processes.
R.R.J.Maier@hw.ac.uk

Optical Diagnostics techniques to provide greater understanding and control of scientific, biological and engineering systems; Measuring deformation, vibration, shape and fluid flow.
A.Moore@hw.ac.uk

New sources of femtosecond optical pulses and their application to real-world problems in microscopy, metrology, spectroscopy and materials processing; Scaling of powers from femtosecond lasers to high average output powers.
D.T.Reid@hw.ac.uk

Novel optical fibres for flexible high power laser delivery, Technologies for integrating lasers into manufacturing processes and novel robotic devices, High power lasers for precision machining, Adaptive optics to tailor light to specific industrial applications, Optical non-destructive testing and, Novel laser processes for medicine.
J.D.Shephard@hw.ac.uk

Ultrafast laser inscription, Novel optical waveguide devices, Free-form optics, New types of volume grating.
R.R.Thomson@hw.ac.uk