School of Electronic Engineering
email : alan@informatics.bangor.ac.uk
1975-1976 Research Fellow, Dept. Applied Physics, UWIST,
1976-1979 Applications Programmer, Dept. Computing,
UWIST,
1979-1983 Lecturer, Dept. Electrical Engineering
and Electronics,
1983-1986 Lecturer,
1986-1990 Senior Lecturer,
1990-1995 Reader, School of Electronic and
Electrical Engineering,
April
1995 Professor of Electronic Engineering, University of
Sept.
1995 Professor of Electronic Engineering,
2001-date Director , ICON Centre of Excellence
2002 -2006 Head,
2006- 2007 Acting Head,
(i) Publications : List Attached Publications
(1) SERC Joint
Optoelectronic Research Scheme (JOERS) Collaboration with
(2) British Telecom Research Labs : "Optical Fibre Coupling Effects on the Performance of Laser Amplifiers", value £9,600 (6 months) 1985-86 (with J. Sarma)
(3) SERC : "Nonlinear and Chaotic Dynamics of Semiconductor
Lasers", value £34,661,(12 months) 1986-87 (with B. Thomas, UWIST,
(4) British Telecom Research Labs. : "Narrow Linewidth Semiconductor Lasers", value £10,254 (6 months) 1987 (with J. Sarma)
(5) SERC Joint
Optoelectronic Research Scheme (JOERS) Collaboration with
(6) SERC : "Nonlinear Systems Theory and Dynamical Models for Semiconductor Lasers", value £63,727 (36 months) 1987-90
(7) SERC : "Nonlinear Optoelectronic Interactions in
Semiconductor Structures with Gain", value £110,413 (36 months) 1990-93
(with J. Sarma and Dr M.McCall
,
(8) SERC : Visiting Fellowship for
Dr R. Nabiev, Lebedev
Institute,
(9) SERC : "Semiconductor Frequency
Doublers and Laser Diodes on 111 Substrates", value £109,758 (36 months)
1992-95 (with Dr J. Sarma and Prof. P. Blood,
University of Wales College of
(10) British Telecom Laboratories : "Dynamics of Semiconductor Nonlinear Optical Waveguides", value £8,754 (3 months) 1993
(11) SERC : "Modal Properties
of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Diodes" value £108,563 (36 months) 1993-96 (with Dr J. Sarma, and Prof. P.N. Robson,
(12) SERC : " Advanced High Power Tapered Waveguide Semiconductor Lasers " value £203,850 ( 24 months ) 1994-96 ( with Prof. I H White + , Dr J.Sarma , Dr R.Penty + , and Dr F. Laughton + , + School of Physics , University of Bath )
(13) EPSRC : " Quantum Well Materials and Structures for Intersubband Population Inversion " value £100,686 ( 36 months) 1994-1997
(14) Royal Society
Postdoctoral Fellowship
for Dr Sergei Turovets of the
(15) EPSRC : " Packaging and hybrid optical integration of laser diodes " value, £158,050
( 36 months) 1996-99 (with Dr J.Sarma )
(16) EPSRC : Laser Diode phase conjugate optical repeaters and amplifiers value £303,293
( 36months ) 1996-2000 ( with J.Sarma,
(17) EPSRC : Infra-structure for chaotic optical data encryption ,value, £272,229
( 36 months) 1997-2000 (with Dr J.Sarma,
(18) Red laser diode modulation ,BICC, value £17,000 ( 6 months) ,1997 ( with Dr P.Rees ) ,
(19) EPSRC , Nonlinear
Magneto-Optics ,Physics Network , ( coordinated by Prof A.D.Boardman,
(20) EPSRC, Polarisation Free Four-Wave-Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ,
value £206,565 ( (36 months), 2000-2003 ( with P.S.Spencer )
(21) EPSRC/HEFCW, JREI : Aurora Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope , value £152,544 , 2000
( with Dr P.S.Spencer and Dr P.Rees )
(22) EPSRC , Experimental demonstration of chaos-based secure optical communications
( with NORTEL Networks,
(23) EPSRC, Design and fabrication of unipolar infra-red optoelectronic devices
Amount £198,706, 2000-2003 ( with Dr P.S.Spencer and Dr P.Rees )
(24) EPSRC, Hyperchaos-based communications with time-delay laser systems
Amount : £41,036, 2001-2002
(25) EPSRC, Circular Grating DFB Organic Semiconductor Lasers , £120,322,2001-2004
( with P.S.Spencer )
(26) EPSRC : Interconnection and Error Correction Technology for Semiconductor Quantum Computer Architectures
£254,833,2001-2004 (S.L.Braunstein, K.A.Shore, P.Rees and P.Spencer )
(27) CETIC Centre of Excellence : Industrial and Commercial Optoelectronics (ICON) £100,000 ,2001-2002 (K.A.Shore , S.L.Braunstein ,P.Rees ,P.S.Spencer and I.Pierce )ICON
(28) ELWa,Knowledge Exploitation Fund , FLAMES Facility £250,000 ( J.P.H.Burt,D.M.Taylor and K.A.Shore )
(29) EU Framework V : Optical Chaos Communications Using Laser Transmitters , (OCCULT ) £184,189, 2001-2004
(30) EPSRC/JREI, Femtosecond Laser Micromachining for Multi-disciplinary Microsystems , £192, 400 ( J.P.H.Burt, D.M.Taylor and K.A.Shore ) 2001-2002
(31) EPSRC, Synchronisation
regimes in chaotic semiconductor lasers , £19,711 ,2002-2003 ( K.A.Shore)
(32) EPSRC , Multiplexed synchronization with chaotic VCSELs ,2003 (K.A.Shore) , £10,925
(33) EPSRC , Advanced Nanoscale and Nonlinear Optoelectronics ( Platform Grant ) (K.A.Shore, P.S.Spencer and Dr P.Rees),
2003-2007 ,value £433,341
(34) CETIC Centre of Excellence : IBMM/ICON) £300,000 ,2004-2007
(D.M.Taylor, K.A.Shore , P.S.Spencer and I.Pierce )
(35) EPSRC , Add-Drop Multiplexing in Chaotic Optical
Communications , £11,293 ,2004 (K.A.Shore)
(36) EPSRC , Design of Tunable Intersubband Semiconductor Lasers , ( K.A.Shore and P.S.Spencer ) , £50,554
(37) EPSRC , Versatile Frequency -Shifted Feedback Laser Diodes , (P.S.Spencer, K.A.Shore and I.Pierce ), £252,050, 2005-2008
(38) EU STREP Project Photonic Integrated Components Applied to Secure Chaos Encoded Optical communications systems ( PICASSO ) 2006-2009 £175,750
(39)EU Marie-Curie Incoming Fellowship Secure High-Speed Information Processing (SHIP ) 2006-2008 £222,523
Major Grant Income : £4,939,531
(iii) Equipment Awards
I. HEFCW , Tunable laser , £110,000, 2000-2001
II. HEFCW , Ellipsometer , £120,000, 2001-2002
(iv) Travel Grants:(Details in 'International Research Collaboration ' below)
(1) Acceones Integradas with ETSET,
UPC,
(2) Academic Research Collaboration (ARC) with Technical University of Berlin, 1991-93, value £4,800
(3) MURST with Politecnico di Torino, 1991-1993, value £3,100
(4) ARC with Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, 1992-93, value £1,600
(5) ARC
exploratory visit to
(6)
(7)
Academic Research Collaboration ( ARC) with Max
Born Institute,
1994-96,value £4,800
(8) Royal Society Collaborative Project with the
over 24 months 1995-97 ,value up to £8000
(9)
Acciones Integradas with Univ
de les Illes Balears ,Palma,1997-98, value £1,600
(10) Acciones
Integradas with
(11) Royal
Society European Research Collaboration,
Cantabria,
(12) Royal Society Collaborative Project with the Institute of Physics , Minsk, Belarus, July/August 2004 , £1,400
(13) Royal Society Collaborative Project with
(v) CASE Studentships:
(i) "Design of high-power semiconductor laser arrays" (1984-87)
SERC CASE Studentship (D. Buckley) with British Telecom ( £4,500).
(ii) "Nonlinear semiconductor optical waveguides" (1987-90)
SERC CASE Studentship (P.M. Lambkin) with British Telecom ( £5,000).
(iii) "Dynamics of semiconductor nonlinear optical waveguides " ( 1990-93)
SERC CASE Studentship (P.S. Spencer) with British Telecom ( £6,000).
(iv) Northern Telecom provided `CASE-like' support to A.Y.C. Wong for PhD research on
The dynamical properties of semiconductor lasers for analogue applications ".
(v) "Dynamics of external cavity laser diodes" (1991-1994)
SERC CASE Studentship (L.N. Langley) with Northern Telecom ( £7,000).
(vi) Chaotic optical data encryption ,(2000-2003 )
EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship( J.Paul) with Nortel Networks ( £13,200)
(vii) Interconnections in Quantum Computing ( 2001-2004)
EPSRC CASE Studentship( S.Peters-Flynn) with Hewlett-Packard( £13,200)
(a) Programme and Organising Committee for the International Conference on Semiconductor Injection Lasers and their Applications (SILA), UWIST, Cardiff, Wales,UK ,1984 and 1986.
(b)
Co-founder and Programme Committee Chairman for the Annual International
Conference on Semiconductor and Integrated Optoelectronics (SIOE), at UWCC,
(c) Conference Organiser and Programme Committee chair for the SIOE conference 1993 -date.
(SIOE annually attracts
about 100 delegates from research laboratories throughout
(d) Organiser of
(e) Programme Committee Member and session chair for the IOP Quantum Electronics Conference
(
QE '12 )
(f) Organiser of the
' Quantum Optoelectronics ' Symposium at the IOP Condensed Matter and Material
Physics Conference ( CMMP ' 95 ) ,
(g) Programme Committee Member of the Optical
Society of
' Integrated Photonics Research '
(h) Programme Committee Chair and Organisation Committee
Member for the
IOP Quantum Electronics Conference ( QE
'13 )
(i) European Liaison Sub-Committee
Chair : Integrated Photonics Research , IPR 98,
(j) Programme Committee Member : European Conference
on Integrated Optics ( ECIO 99) ,
(k) Programme Committee Member : Optical Society of
(l) Technical Programme Committee Member :
IOP
(m) Organising Committee,Rank Prize Symposium , Nonlinear Dynamics of Laser
Diodes ,
(n) Programme Committee Member ,
CLEO (
(o) Programme Committee Member, ISMOT 2005,Kyushu Japan 2005
(p) Programme Committee Member , SPIE Security & Defence,Stockholm 2006
(q) Programme
Committee Member , CLEO (
(a) Joint Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEE Proceedings, Part J, 135, Feb. 1988, pp 1-84.
(b) Referee for the following professional journals:
IEE Proceedings ( Optoelectronics) ; Electronics Letters ; IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics ; IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology ;IEEE Photonics Technology Letters ; J.Optical Soc. America ( JOSA B ) ; Optics Letters ; J.Appl.Phys ; Applied Physics Letters ; Applied Optics ; Optical and Quantum Electronics ; Science; Solid State Electronics ; Journal of Modern Optics ; Optics Communications ; Semiconductor Science and Technology; J.Physics (D); J.Phys. Condensed Matter Physics; J.European Optical Society B ( Quantum and Semiclassical Optics ).
(c) Referee for the following grant-awarding bodies:
SERC/EPSRC , UK ; National Board for Science and Technology, Ireland ; De Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), The Netherlands ; Spanish Science Ministry ;FWF , Austria ;Research Councils : Hong Kong, Israel.
(d) Book proposal referee for Oxford University Press,Prentice Hall International and McGraw Hill.
(e) External PhD examiner: Trinity College Dublin; Dublin City University; University of Durham ; Imperial College, London ; University of Wales; University of Sheffield ; Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; Universidad Cantabria, Santander, Spain; Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France; University of Calcutta,India; University College Dublin ; University of Barcelona; Salford University ; University of Liverpool; University of Manchester; University of Surrey ; Technical University of Denmark ; Heriot-Watt University ;University of Essex, University of Leeds ; Chalmers University ,Sweden.
(f) External MSc examiner:
a) Member
of the Quantum Electronics Committee of the
b) EPSRC Electronics & Photonics Technology College Member, 1997 - date
c) Steering Committee Member , Welsh Optoelectronics Forum ,1996- date
Organiser ,Welsh Optoelectronics Forum Meetings :
1) ,
Laser Diode Innovations for Industrial Exploitation University of
2) Laser and Optics in Biotechnology ,
3) Displays ,
(a) Teaching Quality Assessment : HEFCW Specialist Assessor ,Dept. of
Electronic Engineering ,
(b) QAA Quality Auditor Panel Member for three years from April 1997.
Institutional
Quality Audits : UMIST February 1998 ;
(c) QAA Academic Review training 2002
1) Member Institution of Electrical Engineers (MIEE)
2) Senior Member IEEE (
3) Fellow of the Optical Society of
4) Fellow of the
5) Chair :
(a) Visiting
Research Associate at the Center for High Technology
Materials,
(b) Royal
Society Travel Grant to visit University and Industrial Laboratories in
(c) Visiting
Researcher at the Huygens Laboratory,
(d) Visiting
Researcher at the Danish Telecom Research Laboratory (TFL), Horsholm
and the
(e) Japan
International Science and Technology Exchange Center
(JISTEC) STA Fellowship at the Electrotechnical
Laboratory (ELT) Tsukuba Science City, Japan February/March 1991 for
collaboration with Dr Mutsuo Ogura of the Electron
Device Division of ETL. Also during this stay in
(f) Visiting
Researcher at the Danish Telecom Research Laboratory (TFL), Horsholm
and the
(g) Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics, University de les Illes Balears, Palma, Mallorca, Spain, September 1992
(h) Visiting Professor,Dept. of Physics ,University of Cantabria ,Santander ,Spain ,June 1996
(i) Visiting
Professor in the Centre for Laser Applications ,
Department of Physics ,
(j) Visiting Professor,Dept. of Physics ,University of Cantabria ,Santander ,Spain , June 1998
(k) Visiting Professor in the Centre for Laser Applications , Department of Physics , Macquarie University ,Sydney, Australia,July/August 1998
(l) Visiting Professor in the Centre for Laser Applications , Department of Physics , Macquarie University ,Sydney, Australia,July/August 2000
(m) Visiting Researcher , ATR Advanced Communications Research Laboratory ,Kyoto,Japan, July/ August 2001
(n) Visiting Researcher , Department of Physics , Macquarie University ,Sydney, Australia, 2002,2005,2008
International Research Collaboration
(1) ETSET, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; Prof. F. Canal; "Semiconductor Nonlinear Optical Waveguide Bit-Routing Device (SNOWBIRD)", British Council-Acceones Integradas, 1990-1992.
(2)
(3)
(4) TFL
(Telecom Research Laboratory),
" Dynamics of reversible systems and multidimensional
oscillators (DREAMS)"; Forskerakademiet (
(5) Laboratory of Applied Mathematical Physics, Technical University of Denmark; Prof. P.L. Christiansen and Dr M.P. Soerenson, "Pulse Response of Optical Fibre Lasers (PROFILE)", British Council Academic Research Collaboration, 1992-1993.
(6) Department
of Physics,
(7) Laboratoire de Recherche en Electronique: Signal,
Optoelectronique, Telecomunications
of the Ecole National d'Ingenieurs
de
(8) University of Cantabria,Santander,Spain,Dr.L.Pesquera ; ' Vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers ' Dr A.Valle held a Spanish Ministry of Education 'BECA' postdoctoral fellowship to work at Bath University ( 1993-1995 ).
(9) Max Born Institute,
(10)
(11) Department
of Physical Sciences,
(12) Department of Physics, University of Palma-Mallorca, Spain; Dr C.R.Mirasso; Optical Chaos Cryptography Using Laser-diode Transmitters ( OCCULT) , British Council-Acceones Integradas(1997-98)
(13) Institute of Physics, University of Cantabria,Santander,Spain,Dr A.Valle and Prof.L.Pesquera Modulation of VCSELs ( MOVE) British Council Acciones Integradas, 1998-2000), (with Dr P.Rees)
Nonlinear Circuits and Chaos ( Year III ) 1995 2003 ; 2006-date
Optoelectronics ( Year III ) 1995 -2002
Optical Communication ( Year III ) 1995 -date
Digital Circuits & Design ( Year I ) 1999- 2003 ; 2008- date
RF and Optical MEMs ( Year IV) 2003-date
Information Theory and Coding (Year III) 2004-date
Lecture Courses:
Electronic Engineering (Year I) 1988-89
Electronic Engineering (Year II) 1983-1993
Electronic Circuits and Systems ( Year II) 1994-95
Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (Year II) 1993-1995
Optoelectronics (Year III) 1983-1995
Electromagnetic Waves (Postgraduate) 1983-85
Lightwave Devices and Applications (Year III) 1991-1995
Principles of Optoelectronics ( Year III ) 1994 - 1995
Classes:
Electronics Laboratory (Year II) 1983-93
Quality in Engineering (MEng Year I) 1985-86
Product Enterprise (MEng) 1986-88
Lecture Courses:
Electrical Circuit Theory (Year II) 1979-82
Engineering and Systems Analysis (Year II) 1979-83
Quantum Electronics (Year III) 1980-81
Engineering Analysis (Year II) 1981-82
Electrical Circuit Theory (Year I) 1982-83
Optical Sources for Communications (Postgraduate) 1980-82
Classes:
Computing (Years I and II) 1979-83
University responsibilities
Member of Senate
Senate Representative : University Council and Court 1996-2001
Senate Representative : University Court 2004-date
Member University Quality Assurance Committee 1996- 2001;
Member, University Teaching and Learning Committee 1998- 2001 ;
Member Quality Audit Group for 1998 UWB QAA Continuation Audit
Member, Bilingualism Committee 1998- date
Information Services Committee 1999- 2002
Chair, Network Services Sub-Committee 1999- 2002
Member, Council Nominations Committee 1999-2001
Member, Academic Promotions Committee 1999-2001
Member, Professors and Readers Committee 2000-2003
Member, RAE Task Force, 2000- 2004
Member, Institutional Review Coordinating Group 2000-date
Member, Research Councils Link Committee , 2001-2004
Member, Commercialisation Committee , 2001-2004
Member, Board of Academic Heads, 2004-date
Member Research Strategy Task Group, 2004-2005
Member Institutional Review Group, 2004-date
School responsibilities
Head of School : August 2002- July 2006
Deputy Head of School 1996- July 2002
Chairman, Research Committee ; Editor SEECS Research Review 1994-1997 ;
Member, Planning & Development Committee ;Member ,Teaching and Learning Committee
Committee Membership: Board of Studies Electrical Engineering 1984-87 ;
Working Party on Computer Needs 1985-86 ; Curriculum Review Committee 1985-87 ;
MEng Policy Committee 1985-88;Other Duties:
(1) Management of UMIST Prime Computer usage related to SERC research grants.
(2) Member of the UMIST Prime User Committee and UK Prime User Group, 1984-1988
Committee Membership:Schools Liaison Committee 1980-83 ; Engineering Faculty Board 1980-83 ;
Computer Users Committee 1980-83 ;
Other Duties: Examination Mark Collation 1980-83 ; Final Year Essay 1981-83