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Photon Science Institute

New Lasers in the Photon Science Institute

  • Patrick Parkinson

Patrick Parkinson

23 Jul 2021

The group have received and comissioned a new ultrafast laser system courtesy of an EPSRC World-Class Labs grant! The new system, a 20W PHAROS/ORPHEUS-HP can provide tunable 250fs laser pulses from 315nm to 16,000nm at pulse energies up to 10microjoules and repetition rates of 200kHz.

Professor Parkinson

Professor Parkinson

I've been promoted to Professor of Applied Physics at Manchester.
04 Aug 2026 1 min read
Designing for Awe

Designing for Awe

We celebrate the outputs of scientific discovery: the Nature paper, the press release. But we rarely protect the conditions that produce it. What if awe isn't a nice-to-have, but the hidden driver of the research that matters most?
28 Jul 2026 6 min read
Welcome: Abbas Dalvi

Welcome: Abbas Dalvi

A welcome to new PhD student Abbas Dalvi, who joins from an MPhil with Manchester colleague Darren Graham. Abbas will be working on ultrafast optical microscopy techniques to study photonic integrated materials at high spatial and temporal resolution.
23 Jul 2026
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