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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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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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Spectral synthesis of multimode lasers to the Fourier limit in integrated Fabry-Perot diamond resonators
Granados, E., Granados, C., Ahmed, R., Chrysalidis, K., Fedosseev, V. N., Marsh, B. A., Wilkins, S. G., Mildren, R. P. & Spence, D. J., Mar 2022, In: Optica. 9, 3, p. 317-324 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Absorptive laser threshold magnetometry: combining visible diamond Raman lasers and nitrogen-vacancy centres
Raman Nair, S., Rogers, L. J., Spence, D., Mildren, R. P., Jelezko, F., Greentree, A. D., Volz, T. & Jeske, J., 21 Jun 2021, In: Materials for Quantum Technology . 1, 2, p. 1-13 13 p., 025003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Compact actively Q-switched laser for sensing applications
Lei, X., Wieschendorf, C., Hao, L., Firth, J., Silvestri, L., Gross, S., Ladouceur, F., Withford, M., Spence, D. & Fuerbach, A., 1 Mar 2021, In: Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation. 173, p. 1-7 7 p., 108631.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Efficient linewidth compression to the Fourier limit via resonant phonon interaction in diamond
Granados, E., Granados, C., Ahmed, R., Chrysalidis, K., Fedosseev, V. N., Marsh, B. A., Wilkins, S. G., Mildren, R. P. & Spence, D. J., 2021, OSA Nonlinear Optics 2021. Washington, DC: Optica Publishing Group, 2 p. NF2B.2Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review