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David Spence

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5974-853X
  • 2379 Citations
  • 23 h-Index
19992021

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Biography

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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Projects

MQ Photonics Research Centre - MQRC 2019

Dawes, J., Jackson, S., Mildren, R., Spence, D., Coutts, D. W., Withford, M., Bagnall, D., Pask, H., Steel, M., Kane, D., Town, G., Fuerbach, A., Zvyagin, A., Volz, T., Downes, J., Hudson, D., Inglis, D., Carman, R., Lu, Y., Lee, A., Schwab, C., Gross, S., Ploschner, M., Woodward, R., Arriola, A., Rogers, L., Munoz Matutano, G., Ams, M., Nadort, A., Payne, D., Collins, M., Pillai, S., Liang, O. & Teddy Fernandez, T.

1/01/19 → 31/12/21

Project: Other

Terahertz lasers in the fight against illicit substances

Lee, A., Pask, H., Spence, D., Reedy, B., Hempler, N., Tahtouh, M. & De Grazia, A.

14/12/18 → 13/12/21

Project: Other

Directed energy concept based on fibre laser pumped diamond

Mildren, R., Williams, R. & Spence, D.

13/04/17 → …

Project: Research

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

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

Research Outputs

Improvements in terahertz lasers and terahertz extraction

Lee, A., Pask, H. M. & Spence, D. J., 5 Feb 2020, IPC No. H01S 1/02, G02F 1/35, Patent No. EP3602700, Priority date 23 Mar 2018, Priority No. WO2018AU50271

Research output: Patent

Open Access

    • Linewidth-narrowing of a continuous wave terahertz polariton laser using an intracavity etalon

    Zheng, Y., Lee, A., Spence, D. & Pask, H., 1 Jan 2020, In : Optics Letters. 45, 1, p. 157-160 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Terahertz lasers and terahertz extraction

    Lee, A., Pask, H. M. & Spence, D. J., 9 Jan 2020, IPC No. H01S 1/02, Patent No. US20200014166, Priority date 23 Mar 2018, Priority No. WO2018AU50271

    Research output: Patent

    • 1.2 kW quasi-steady-state diamond Raman laser pumped by an M2 = 15 beam

    Antipov, S., Sabella, A., Williams, R. J., Kitzler, O., Spence, D. J. & Mildren, R. P., 15 May 2019, In : Optics Letters. 44, 10, p. 2506-2509 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 2 Citations (Scopus)

    Analytic theory for lasers based on stimulated polariton scattering

    Spence, D. J., Pask, H. M. & Lee, A. J., 1 Jun 2019, In : Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 36, 6, p. 1706-1715 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 1 Citation (Scopus)