ADVANCED SOLID-STATE LASER SOURCES AND SYSTEMS

未来的实用激光器必须经过改造，以满足科学和工业日益严格的要求。这将需要创新的激光科学，我们相信，我们世界领先的研究将使许多必要的进步成为可能。随着工程平台资助将促进更高的连贯性和稳定性，我们将更容易实现我们的愿景：设计小型化、可重新配置和主动控制的固态激光系统，在科学、仪器和制造领域创造新的机会。这一战略解决了对先进激光的实际应用至关重要的问题：功能性、可靠性和低拥有成本--这些特征对学术科学和创新生物医学或工业同样重要。实现这些目标需要一个多学科的研究团队/将对来源、系统和应用的理解结合在一起。先进激光集团将这些必要的专业知识与现有的研究组合相结合，这些研究组合在高性能光泵半导体激光器和自优化激光器等领域取得了重要进展，从而产生了适合高分辨率生物成像和自由空间光通信等各种应用的光源。我们将通过围绕四个主题的研究战略来推进这项工作：1.先进的微型激光2.具有可编程输出图案的激光器(例如，用于简化光刻)3.改进的生物光子学和医药源4.多功能和可自我重新配置的微处理器控制的激光器然而，该计划还必须适应这一充满活力的研究领域将继续产生的令人兴奋的新机会。战略远景、创新的激光科学以及应对新机遇的灵活性将是实现我们的研究目标的关键。因此，留住关键的合同研究人员，进行冒险但高风险的项目前研究，并进行国际合作将是至关重要的。灵活的平台拨款资助机制将有助于这三个方面的工作，从而支持我们的创新研究计划。激光是一项关键技术：先进激光工程的快速发展对于保持英国在光学科学、光子业及其共同实现的关键应用领域的领先地位至关重要。平台赠款资金将支持我们现有的研究战略，加强并增加灵活性，使我们能够继续为未来真正实现激光系统的基础提供重要的科学和技术。

Tomorrow's practical lasers must be engineered to meet the increasingly exacting demands of science and industry. This will require innovative laser science, and we believe that our world-leading research will enable many of the necessary advances. With the increased coherence and stability that an Engineering Platform grant will foster, we will more readily realise our vision:to engineer miniaturised, reconfigurable and actively-controlled solid-state laser systems, creating new opportunities in science, instrumentation and manufacturing.This strategy addresses issues vital to the practical application of advanced lasers: functionality, reliability and low-cost of ownership - characteristics as important for academic science as they are for innovative bio-medicine or industry. Achieving these objectives demands a multi-disciplinary research team / bringing together an understanding of source, system and application. The Advanced Laser Group combines this necessary range of expertise with an existing research portfolio that has delivered important advances in areas such as high-performance optically pumped semiconductor lasers and self-optimising lasers - resulting in sources tailored for applications as diverse as high resolution biological imaging and free-space optical communications. We will take this work forward through a research strategy that centres on four themes:1. Advanced micro-lasers2. Lasers with programmable output patterns (e.g. for simplified lithography)3. Improved sources for biophotonics and medicine4. Versatile and self re-configurable microprocessor-controlled lasersHowever, this programme must also adapt to the exciting new opportunities that this vibrant area of research are will continue to produce. A strategic outlook, innovative laser science and the flexibility to respond to new opportunities will be essential in achieving our research objectives. Thus, it will be vital to retain key contract research staff, undertake adventurous - but high risk - pre-project studies and collaborate internationally. The flexible funding mechanism of a platform grant will assist with all three imperatives; thus underpinning our innovative research programme.Lasers are a keystone technology: rapid progress in advanced laser engineering is vital to sustain the UK's leading position in the optical sciences, the photonics industry and the crucial applications they jointly enable. Platform grant funding will underpin our existing research strategy, strengthening and adding flexibility to the base from which we can continue to provide important science and technology for tomorrow's truly enabling laser systems.