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I received an MPhys degree (1997) and a DPhil (2001) from Oxford University, UK. Following two years as a Research Assistant in the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford, I moved to Macquarie University in 2004, where I completed an ARC Research fellowship (APDF). I now hold a professorship in the MQ Photonics research centre. My research has covered a wide range of laser and nonlinear optics. Experimental highlights include: working with national-scale PW laser to make XUV lasers; building 25 fs Raman lasers in the IR and the first ultrafast cerium lasers in the UV; building 22 ps Q-switched microchip lasers; and CW single longitudinal mode lasers using Raman-, polariton-, and Brillouin-scattering. My publications are characterized by a strong link between experiments and supporting theory, using both numerical and analytic modelling, with theory highlights including an invited review of Raman theory, and an analytic theory to model polariton THz lasers. Successful industry translations include a commercialised product with Optos for retinal surgery, and current IP licenses with Jenoptik GmbH and M Squared Lasers Ltd.
I have supervised 6 completed PhD students and has one current student. Two graduated students are now in high-tech industry (Renishaw, PLC, UK, and Coherent Scotland, UK), one is in a science funding consultancy (forderbar GmbH), one is a postdoc at Capital Normal University, Beijing, and one is at CERN (after a postdoc at MIT and a position of beam scientist at SLAC).
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Directed energy concept based on fibre laser pumped diamond
Mildren, R., Williams, R. & Spence, D.
13/04/17 → …
Project: Research
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Precision frequency spectrum diagnostic for pulsed lasers
Mildren, R., Pask, H., Spence, D., Lee, A., Jackson, S., Williams, R., Fuerbach, A., Kitzler, O. & Piracha, A.
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
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The Ultimate Multimode Photonics Characterisation Tool
Gross, S., Steel, M., Ams, M., Spence, D., Hudson, D., Arriola, A., Collins, M., Douglass, G. & Gretzinger, T.
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
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Diamond lasers for precision applications
Spence, D., Mildren, R. & Malcolm, G.
17/08/16 → …
Project: Research
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MQ Photonics Research Centre
Coutts, D. W., Withford, M., Orr, B., Carman, R., Connally, R., Dawes, J., Browne, P., Downes, J., Fuerbach, A., Goldys, E., Dekker, P., He, Y., Jin, D., Kane, D., Marshall, G., Mildren, R., Pask, H., Piper, J., Rabeau, J., Spence, D., Drozdowicz-Tomsia, K., Town, G., Zvyagin, A. & Steel, M.
1/07/07 → …
Project: Research
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Monte Carlo modelling for elastic and Raman signals in oceanic LiDAR
Spence, D. J., Neimann, B. R. & Pask, H. M., 10 Apr 2023, In: Optics Express. 31, 8, p. 12339-12348 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Secondary Raman and Brillouin mode suppression in two- and three-mirror-cavity diamond Raman lasers
Li, M., Sun, Y., Jiang, H., Mildren, R. P., Kitzler, O., Spence, D. J. & Feng, Y., 27 Feb 2023, In: Optics Express. 31, 5, p. 8622-8631 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cavity design with single-mirror THz frequency tuning for polariton lasers
Kitzler, O., Jose, A., Lee, A., Spence, D. J. & Pask, H. M., 15 Jul 2022, In: Optics Letters. 47, 14, p. 3391-3394 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Diamond Raman laser and Yb fiber amplifier for in vivo multiphoton fluorescence microscopy
Engelmann, S. A., Zhou, A., Hassan, A. M., Williamson, M. R., Jarrett, J. W., Perillo, E. P., Tomar, A., Spence, D. J., Jones, T. A. & Dunn, A. K., 1 Apr 2022, In: Biomedical Optics Express. 13, 4, p. 1888-1898 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Low-temperature terahertz absorption measurements and polariton laser gain modelling for 5 mol% MgO:LiNbO3
Jose, A. A., Kitzler, O., Pask, H. M. & Spence, D. J., 1 Nov 2022, In: Optical Materials Express. 12, 11, p. 4499-4505 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Inter-Departmental Collaboration - [EX]plore Conference Organising Committee
Spence, David (Recipient), De Marco, Orsola (Recipient), Jiang, I. (Recipient), Lin, Huan (Recipient), Smith, Connor (Recipient), Jaschke, Paul (Recipient), Hurst, S. (Recipient), Fernandes Erickson, M. (Recipient), Rhee, K. (Recipient), Sharpless, K. (Recipient), Aboud, J. (Recipient), Er, J. (Recipient) & Pallesen, M. (Recipient), 8 Dec 2022
Prize: Other distinction