Martin D. Dawson
Martin D. Dawson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Known for | Photonics microLEDs VECSELs diamond photonics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Photonics |
| Institutions | University of Strathclyde |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilson Sibbett |
| Website | www |
Martin D. Dawson (born 1960) is a British professor of photonics. He serves as the research director of the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde and is head of Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics.
Career
Dawson is a physicist known for his work on lasers, microLEDs and compound semiconductors.[1][2] He is Director of Research in the University of Strathclyde's Institute of Photonics, which he helped establish in 1996, and he was also appointed inaugural[3] Head of the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics in 2012.
Dawson has contributed to the development of vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers.[4](VECSELS). He has developed optically pumped VECSELS since 1997 and has achieved a number of world firsts in this field, for example the first tunable single frequency operation of such lasers.[5]
His work was instrumental to the development of gallium nitride (GaN) micro-LEDs.[6] His microLED array work has also established their use as a light source for optogenetics applications[7][8] and for Li -Fi and visible light communications.[9]
Awards and recognition
- 2016 Gabor Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics[10]
- 2016 Aron Kessel Award from the IEEE Photonics Society[11]
- 2021 Nick Holonyak Award from the Optical Society[12][13]
References
- ^ "Martin Dawson – Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.co.uk.
- ^ "Browse by Author or creator – Strathprints". strathprints.strath.ac.uk.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Okhotnikov, Oleg (19 April 2010). Okhotnikov, Oleg G (ed.). Semiconductor Disk Lasers: Physics and Technology. doi:10.1002/9783527630394. ISBN 978-3-527-40933-4.
- ^ Guina, Mircea; Rantamäki, Antti; Härkönen, A (2017). "Optically pumped VECSELs: Review of technology and progress". Journal of Physics D. 50 (38): 383001. Bibcode:2017JPhD...50L3001G. doi:10.1088/1361-6463/aa7bfd. S2CID 13707050.
- ^ "Samsung unveils giant modular TV". BBC News. 9 January 2018.
- ^ Dawson, Martin D; Neil, Mark A A (4 April 2008). "Micro-pixellated LEDs for science and instrumentation". Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 41 (9) 090301. IOP Publishing. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/41/9/090301. ISSN 0022-3727.
- ^ Poher, V; Grossman, N; Kennedy, G T; Nikolic, K; Zhang, H X; et al. (4 April 2008). "Micro-LED arrays: a tool for two-dimensional neuron stimulation". Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 41 (9) 094014. IOP Publishing. Bibcode:2008JPhD...41i4014P. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/41/9/094014. ISSN 0022-3727. S2CID 14519094.
- ^ McKendry, Jonathan J. D.; Massoubre, David; Zhang, Shuailong; Rae, Bruce R.; Green, Richard P.; et al. (2012). "Visible-Light Communications Using a CMOS-Controlled Micro-Light- Emitting-Diode Array". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 30 (1). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 61–67. Bibcode:2012JLwT...30...61M. doi:10.1109/jlt.2011.2175090. hdl:10072/51676. ISSN 0733-8724. S2CID 22496989.
- ^ "2016 Gabor Medal and prize of the Institute of Physics". www.iop.org. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ "IEEE Photonics Society Congratulates our 2016 Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE Photonics Society News. Vol. 30, no. 5. October 2016. p. 27.
- ^ "The Optical Society Names 17 Recipients for 2021 OSA Awards" (Press release). Optica. 11 February 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ^ "Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award". OSA.