Professor Martin Lavery
- Professor (Electronic & Nanoscale Engineering)
email:
Martin.Lavery@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 3113, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G11 6EW
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-421XResearch interests
Structured Photonics Research Group
Focusing on applying novel physical phenomena to industry inspired engineering challenges, this group has successfully led a range of research programs including the development of state-of-the-art Space Division Multiplexed communication systems, novel studies into the propagation dynamics of structured light in turbulent environments, ultra-wide field of view solar collection optics, and bespoke acoustic wavefront shapers.
Biography
Prof Lavery is a Full Professor and leader of the Structured Photonics Research Group at the University of Glasgow (UofG). His dynamic research group has a track record in investigating fundamental developments in Physics and successfully applying them to industry inspired engineering challenges. Since joining the School of Engineering in September 2014, he has successfully attracted over £5m in research funding as Principle Investigator (PI) and is coordinator of the H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET-Open) consortium project named SuperPixels. He has been recognised as a leader in the academic community, having been awarded the 2013 Scopus Young Scientist of the Year for Physical Sciences. In 2018, he became the Mobile World Scholar Gold Medal winner for his accomplishments in high dimensional optical communications. For his contributions to the field of optics he was further awarded the 2019 Royal Academy of Edinburgh Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane Medal. He has led a team of world-leading researchers to develop a road map for deploying highspeed network provision for developing countries (Lavery et. al, N. Photon. 12(5), 249-252, 2018) supported by the EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund.
Research Team
Research Associates
PHD Students
Sara Angelucci
Shahzaib Azam
Aleksandr Boldin
Ultan Daly
Lenny Hirsch
Mark Main
Grace Richard
Kou Wang
Yiqun Zhang
Zhaowei Zhang
Join the team
The Structured Photonics Research Group is seeking highly motivated Ph.D and post doctoral researchers to get involved in a range of exciting projects. Please get in contact for more information about current and future openings.
Publications
2024
Angelucci, S., Chen, Z. , Skvarenina, Ľ., Clark, A. W. , Vallés, A. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2024) Structured light enhanced machine learning for fiber bend sensing. Optics Express, 32(5), pp. 7882-7895. (doi: 10.1364/OE.513829)
2022
Li, Y., Chen, Z. , Hu, Z., Benton, D. M., Ali, A. A.I., Patel, M., Lavery, M. P.J. and Ellis, A. D. (2022) Enhanced atmospheric turbulence resiliency with successive interference cancellation DSP in mode division multiplexing free-space optical links. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(24), pp. 7769-7778. (doi: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3209092)
Shi, C., Cheng, M., Gui, L., Lavery, M. P.J. , Wang, P., Liu, S., Li, R. and Li, J. (2022) Particle scattering induced orbital angular momentum spectrum change of vector Bessel–Gaussian vortex beam. Remote Sensing, 14(18), 4550. (doi: 10.3390/rs14184550)
Yessenov, M., Chen, Z. , Lavery, M. P.J. and Abouraddy, A. F. (2022) Vector space-time wave packets. Optics Letters, 47(16), pp. 4131-4134. (doi: 10.1364/OL.467724)
Yessenov, M., Free, J., Chen, Z. , Johnson, E. G., Lavery, M. P. J. , Alonso, M. A. and Abouraddy, A. F. (2022) Space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions. Nature Communications, 13, 4573. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32240-0) (PMID:35931684) (PMCID:PMC9356057)
Zhang, Y., Jiang, N., Zhao, A., Liu, S., Peng, J., Chen, L., Lavery, M. P.J. , Abbas, H. T. and Qiu, K. (2022) Security enhancement in coherent OFDM optical transmission with chaotic three-dimensional constellation scrambling. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(12), pp. 3749-3760. (doi: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3154091)
Dong, K., Cheng, M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Geng, S., Wang, P. and Guo, L. (2022) Scattering of partially coherent vortex beam by rough surface in atmospheric turbulence. Optics Express, 30(3), pp. 4165-4178. (doi: 10.1364/OE.444155) (PMID:35209659)
2021
Dada, A. C. , Kaniewski, J., Gawith, C., Lavery, M. , Hadfield, R. H. , Faccio, D. and Clerici, M. (2021) Near-maximal two-photon entanglement for optical quantum communication at 2.1 μm. Physical Review Applied, 16(5), L051005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.L051005)
Zhang, Y., Jiang, N., Liu, S., Lavery, M. P. J. , Abbas, H. and Qiu, K. (2021) Physical Layer Encryption in CO-OFDM Employing Chaotic Mapping and Novel 3D 16-Ary Constellation. In: 6th International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET 2021), Chengdu, China, 4-6 Nov 2021, pp. 90-95. ISBN 9781665495752 (doi: 10.1109/UCET54125.2021.9674976)
Chen, M. and Lavery, M. (2021) Optical angular momentum interaction with turbulent and scattering media. In: Al-Amri, M. D., Andrews, D. L. and Babiker, M. (eds.) Structured Light for Optical Communication. Elsevier, pp. 237-258. ISBN 9780128215104 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-821510-4.00015-7)
Malik, M. N. et al. (2021) Tunable orbital angular momentum converter based on integrated multiplexers. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(1), pp. 91-97. (doi: 10.1109/JLT.2020.3023595)
2020
Greer, A. I.M. , Barbour, E., Cutiongco, M. F. , Stormonth-Darling, J. M. , Convery, N., Alsaigh, R. E., Lavery, M. P.J. and Gadegaard, N. (2020) Large volume nanoscale 3D printing: Nano-3DP. Applied Materials Today, 21, 100782. (doi: 10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100782)
Alsaigh, R. E., Bauer, R. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2020) Multi-layer light trapping structures for enhanced solar collection. Optics Express, 28(21), pp. 31714-31728. (doi: 10.1364/OE.403990)
Shi, C., Guo, L., Cheng, M., Lavery, M. P. J. and Liu, S. (2020) Aerosol scattering of vortex beams transmission in hazy atmosphere. Optics Express, 28(19), pp. 28072-28084. (doi: 10.1364/OE.401293) (PMID:32988086)
Viola, S., Chen, Z. , Yao, A. M., Valyrakis, M. , Kelly, A. E. , McKee, D. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2020) Degradation of light carrying orbital angular momentum by ballistic scattering. Physical Review Research, 2, 033093. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033093)
Richard, G. , Lay, H. S. , Giovannini, D., Cochran, S. , Spalding, G. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2020) Twisting waves increase the visibility of nonlinear behaviour. New Journal of Physics, 22(6), 063021. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab8aab)
Song, R., Richard, G. , Cheng, C. Y.-Y., Teng, L., Qiu, Y. , Lavery, M. P.J. , Trolier-McKinstry, S., Cochran, S. and Underwood, I. (2020) Multi-channel signal generator ASIC for acoustic holograms. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 67(1), pp. 49-56. (doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2938917)
Alsaigh, R. E., Bauer, R. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2020) Multi-element lenslet array for efficient solar collection at extreme angles of incidence. Scientific Reports, 10, 8741. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65437-8) (PMID:32457316) (PMCID:PMC7250910)
2019
Mansour Abadi, M., Cox, M. A., Alsaigh, R. E., Viola, S., Forbes, A. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2019) A space division multiplexed free-space-optical communication system that can auto-locate and fully self align with a remote transceiver. Scientific Reports, 9, 19687. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55670-1) (PMID:31873095) (PMCID:PMC6928158)
Malik, M. N. et al. (2019) Demonstration of a multiplane OAM-wavelength packet switch controlled by a two-step scheduler implemented in FPGAs. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37(16), pp. 3948-3955. (doi: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2915347)
2018
Scaffardi, M. et al. (2018) The Orbital Angular Momentum of Light for Ultra-High Capacity Data Centers. In: 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON2018), Bucharest, Romania, 1-5 Jul 2018, ISBN 9781538666050 (doi: 10.1109/ICTON.2018.8473631)
Scaffardi, M. et al. (2018) OpenFlow-Control of an OAM-Based Two-Layer Switch Supporting 100Gb/s Real Data-Traffic. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, CA, USA, 13-18 May 2018, ISBN 9781943580422 (doi: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2018.SW4C.4)
Zhang, N. et al. (2018) 4 OAM × 4 WDM Optical Switching Based on an Innovative Integrated Tunable OAM Multiplexer. In: 2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 11-15 Mar 2018, ISBN 9781943580385
Mansour Abadi, M., Ghassemlooy, Z., Bhatnagar, M. R., Zvanovec, S., Khalighi, M.-A. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2018) Differential signalling in free-space optical communication systems. Applied Sciences, 8(6), 872. (doi: 10.3390/app8060872)
Lavery, M. P. J. et al. (2018) Tackling Africa’s digital divide. Nature Photonics, 12(5), pp. 249-252. (doi: 10.1038/s41566-018-0162-z)
Lavery, M. P.J. (2018) Vortex instability in turbulent free-space propagation. New Journal of Physics, 20, 043023. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aaae9e)
Scaffardi, M., Zhang, N., Malik, M. N., Lazzeri, E., Klitis, C. , Lavery, M. , Sorel, M. and Bogoni, A. (2018) Interconnection network architectures based on integrated orbital angular momentum emitters. Optics Communications, 408, pp. 63-67. (doi: 10.1016/j.optcom.2017.08.024)
Scaffardi, M., Andriolli, N., Malik, M. N., Zhang, N., Lazzeri, E., Klitis, C. , Lavery, M. , Sorel, M. and Bogoni, A. (2018) Multiplane Orbital Angular Momentum and Wavelength Switch based on Integrated Tunable Vortex Emitters. 2018 Optical Fiber Communication Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 11-15 Mar 2018. Th2A.44. ISBN 9781943580385 (doi: 10.1364/OFC.2018.Th2A.44)
2017
Ndagano, B., Nape, I., Perez-Garcia, B., Scholes, S., Hernandez-Aranda, R. I., Konrad, T., Lavery, M. P.J. and Forbes, A. (2017) A deterministic detector for vector vortex states. Scientific Reports, 7, 13882. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-12739-z) (PMID:29066715) (PMCID:PMC5654751)
Lavery, M. P.J. , Peuntinger, C., Günthner, K., Banzer, P., Elser, D., Boyd, R. W., Padgett, M. J. , Marquardt, C. and Leuchs, G. (2017) Free-space propagation of high dimensional structured optical fields in an urban environment. Science Advances, 3(10), e1700552. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1700552)
Grillo, V. et al. (2017) Measuring the orbital angular momentum spectrum of an electron beam. Nature Communications, 8, 15536. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms15536) (PMID:28537248) (PMCID:PMC5458084)
McMorran, B. J., Harvey, T. R. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2017) Efficient sorting of free electron orbital angular momentum. New Journal of Physics, 19, 023053. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa5f6f)
Scaffardi, M., Zhang, N., Malik, M. N., Lazzeri, E., Klitis, C. , Lavery, M. , Sorel, M. and Bogoni, A. (2017) Two-Layer Interconnection Network Architectures Based on Integrated Concentric Orbital Angular Momentum Emitters. Nonlinear Optics 2017, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 17-21 July 2017. PM2D.2. (doi: 10.1364/PS.2017.PM2D.2)
2016
Viola, S., Valyrakis, M. , Kelly, A. and Lavery, M. P. (2016) Study of Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Crosstalk Induced by Propagation Through Water. In: 2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA, 05-10 Jun 2016, ISBN 9781943580118 (doi: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.SW1F.3)
Viola, S., Valyrakis, M. , Kelly, A. E. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2016) Study of Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Crosstalk Induced by Propagation Through Water. In: Advanced Free-Space Optical Communication Techniques and Applications II, Edinburgh, UK, 26-29 Sept 2016, p. 999103. (doi: 10.1117/12.2245487)
Cox, M. A., Rosales-Guzmán, C., Lavery, M. P.J. , Versfeld, D. J. and Forbes, A. (2016) On the resilience of scalar and vector vortex modes in turbulence. Optics Express, 24(16), pp. 18105-18113. (doi: 10.1364/OE.24.018105) (PMID:27505776)
Long, L. et al. (2016) Orbital-angular-momentum-multiplexed free-space optical communication link using transmitter lenses. Applied Optics, 55(8), pp. 2098-2103. (doi: 10.1364/AO.55.002098) (PMID:26974808)
Ahmed, N. et al. (2016) Mode-division-multiplexing of multiple Bessel-Gaussian beams carrying orbital-angular-momentum for obstruction-tolerant free-space optical and millimetre-wave communication links. Scientific Reports, 6, 22082. (doi: 10.1038/srep22082) (PMID:26926068) (PMCID:PMC4772084)
Lavery, M. P.J. , Huang, H., Ren, Y., Xie, G. and Willner, A. E. (2016) Demonstration of a 280-Gbit/s free-space SDM communications link utilizing plane-wave spatial multiplexing. Optics Letters, 41(5), pp. 851-854. (doi: 10.1364/OL.41.000851) (PMID:26974062)
Ren, Y. et al. (2016) Experimental characterization of a 400 Gbit/s orbital angular momentum multiplexed free-space optical link over 120 m. Optics Letters, 41(3), pp. 622-625. (doi: 10.1364/OL.41.000622)
2015
Huang, H. et al. (2015) Mode division multiplexing using an orbital angular momentum mode sorter and MIMO-DSP over a graded-index few-mode optical fibre. Scientific Reports, 5, 14931. (doi: 10.1038/srep14931) (PMID:26450398) (PMCID:PMC4598738)
Ren, Y. et al. (2015) Turbulence compensation of an orbital angular momentum and polarization-multiplexed link using a data-carrying beacon on a separate wavelength. Optics Letters, 40(10), pp. 2249-2252. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.002249) (PMID:26393711)
Xie, G. et al. (2015) Performance metrics and design considerations for a free-space optical orbital-angular-momentum–multiplexed communication link. Optica, 2(4), pp. 357-365. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.000357)
Xie, G. et al. (2015) Phase correction for a distorted orbital angular momentum beam using a Zernike polynomials-based stochastic-parallel-gradient-descent algorithm. Optics Letters, 40(7), pp. 1197-1200. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.001197)
Willner, A. E. et al. (2015) Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beams. Advances in Optics and Photonics, 7(1), pp. 66-106.
Milione, G. et al. (2015) 4 × 20 Gbit/s mode division multiplexing over free space using vector modes and a q-plate mode (de)multiplexer. Optics Letters, 40(9), pp. 1980-1983. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.001980)
Mirhosseini, M., Magaña-Loaiza, O. S., O’Sullivan, M. N., Rodenburg, B., Malik, M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Padgett, M. J. , Gauthier, D. J. and Boyd, R. W. (2015) High-dimensional quantum cryptography with twisted light. New Journal of Physics, 17(3), 033033. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/3/033033)
Padgett, M. J. , Miatto, F. M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Zeilinger, A. and Boyd, R. W. (2015) Divergence of an orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam upon propagation. New Journal of Physics, 17(2), 023011. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023011)
2014
Ren, Y. et al. (2014) Adaptive-optics-based simultaneous pre- and post-turbulence compensation of multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams in a bidirectional free-space optical link. Optica, 1(6), pp. 376-382. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000376)
Yan, Y. et al. (2014) High-capacity millimetre-wave communications with orbital angular momentum multiplexing. Nature Communications, 5, 4876. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5876) (PMID:25224763) (PMCID:PMC4175588)
Lavery, M. P. J. , Barnett, S. M. , Speirits, F. C. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Observation of the rotational Doppler shift of a white-light, orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam backscattered from a rotating body. Optica, 1(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000001)
Speirits, F. C. , Lavery, M. P. J. , Padgett, M. J. and Barnett, S. M. (2014) Optical angular momentum in a rotating frame. Optics Letters, 39(10), pp. 2944-2946. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.002944)
Huang, H. et al. (2014) Tunable orbital angular momentum mode filter based on optical geometric transformation. Optics Letters, 39(6), pp. 1689-1692. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.001689) (PMID:24690870)
Malik, M., Mirhosseini, M., Lavery, M.P.J. , Leach, J., Padgett, M.J. and Boyd, R.W. (2014) Direct measurement of a 27-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum state vector. Nature Communications, 5, p. 3115. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms4115)
Huang, H. et al. (2014) 100 Tbit/s free-space data link enabled by three-dimensional multiplexing of orbital angular momentum, polarization, and wavelength. Optics Letters, 39(2), p. 197. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.000197) (PMID:24562105)
Fickler, R., Lapkiewicz, R., Huber, M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Padgett, M. J. and Zeilinger, A. (2014) Interface between path and orbital angular momentum entanglement for high-dimensional photonic quantum information. Nature Communications, 5, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5502)
Phillips, D. B., Lee, M. P., Speirits, F. C. , Barnett, S. M. , Simpson, S. H., Lavery, M. P. J. , Padgett, M. J. and Gibson, G. M. (2014) Rotational Doppler velocimetry to probe the angular velocity of spinning microparticles. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 90(1), 011801. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.011801)
Ren, Y. et al. (2014) Adaptive optics compensation of multiple orbital angular momentum beams propagating through emulated atmospheric turbulence. Optics Letters, 39(10), p. 2845. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.002845) (PMID:24978218)
2013
Willner, M. J., Huang, H., Ahmed, N., Xie, G., Ren, Y., Yan, Y., Lavery, M. P. J. , Padgett, M. J. , Tur, M. and Willner, A. E. (2013) Reconfigurable orbital angular momentum and polarization manipulation of 100 Gbit/s QPSK data channels. Optics Letters, 38(24), pp. 5240-5243. (doi: 10.1364/OL.38.005240)
Ren, Y. et al. (2013) Atmospheric turbulence effects on the performance of a free space optical link employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing. Optics Letters, 38(20), pp. 4062-4065. (doi: 10.1364/OL.38.004062)
Lavery, M.P.J. , Speirits, F.C. , Barnett, S.M. and Padgett, M.J. (2013) Detection of a spinning object using light's orbital angular momentum. Science, 341(6145), pp. 537-540. (doi: 10.1126/science.1239936)
Dudley, A., Mhlanga, T., Lavery, M.P.J., McDonald, A., Roux, F.S., Padgett, M.J. and Forbes, A. (2013) Efficient sorting of Bessel beams. Optics Express, 21(1), pp. 165-171. (doi: 10.1364/OE.21.000165)
2012
Lavery, M.P.J., Robertson, D.J., Berkhout, G.C.G., Love, G.D., Padgett, M.J. and Courtial, J. (2012) Refractive elements for the measurement of the orbital angular momentum of a single photon. Optics Express, 20(3), pp. 2110-2115. (doi: 10.1364/OE.20.002110)
Malik, M., O’Sullivan, M., Rodenburg, B., Mirhosseini, M., Leach, J., Lavery, M.P.J., Padgett, M.J. and Boyd, R.W. (2012) Influence of atmospheric turbulence on optical communications using orbital angular momentum for encoding. Optics Express, 20(12), p. 13195. (doi: 10.1364/OE.20.013195)
Padgett, M.J. , Giovannini, D., Lavery, M. , Romero, J., Barnett, S.M., Miatto, F., Boyd, R.W. and Leach, J. (2012) Photon Orbital Angular Momentum: Generation, Measurement and Application to QKD. In: Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Photonic Technologies, and Applications VI, Edinburgh, UK, 24-26 Sep 2012, 85421P-1-85421P-5. ISBN 9780819492838 (doi: 10.1117/12.975993)
Rodenburg, B., Lavery, M.P.J., Malik, M., O’Sullivan, M.N., Mirhosseini, M., Robertson, D.J., Padgett, M.J. and Boyd, R.W. (2012) Influence of atmospheric turbulence on states of light carrying orbital angular momentum. Optics Letters, 37(17), p. 3735. (doi: 10.1364/OL.37.003735)
2011
Lavery, M. P.J., Dudley, A., Forbes, A., Courtial, J. and Padgett, M. J. (2011) Robust interferometer for the routing of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum. New Journal of Physics, 13(9), 093014. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/9/093014)
Lavery, M. P.G. , Berkhout, G. C.G., Courtial, J. and Padgett, M. J. (2011) Measurement of the light orbital angular momentum spectrum using an optical geometric transformation. Journal of Optics, 13(6), 064006. (doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064006)
Berkhout, G. C. G., Lavery, M. P.J. , Padgett, M. J. and Beijersbergen, M. W. (2011) Measuring orbital angular momentum superpositions of light by mode transformation. Optics Letters, 36(10), pp. 1863-1865. (doi: 10.1364/OL.36.001863)
2010
Berkhout, G. C.G., Lavery, M. P.J. , Courtial, J. , Beijersbergen, M. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2010) Efficient sorting of orbital angular momentum states of light. Physical Review Letters, 105(15), 153601. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.153601)
Articles
Angelucci, S., Chen, Z. , Skvarenina, Ľ., Clark, A. W. , Vallés, A. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2024) Structured light enhanced machine learning for fiber bend sensing. Optics Express, 32(5), pp. 7882-7895. (doi: 10.1364/OE.513829)
Li, Y., Chen, Z. , Hu, Z., Benton, D. M., Ali, A. A.I., Patel, M., Lavery, M. P.J. and Ellis, A. D. (2022) Enhanced atmospheric turbulence resiliency with successive interference cancellation DSP in mode division multiplexing free-space optical links. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(24), pp. 7769-7778. (doi: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3209092)
Shi, C., Cheng, M., Gui, L., Lavery, M. P.J. , Wang, P., Liu, S., Li, R. and Li, J. (2022) Particle scattering induced orbital angular momentum spectrum change of vector Bessel–Gaussian vortex beam. Remote Sensing, 14(18), 4550. (doi: 10.3390/rs14184550)
Yessenov, M., Chen, Z. , Lavery, M. P.J. and Abouraddy, A. F. (2022) Vector space-time wave packets. Optics Letters, 47(16), pp. 4131-4134. (doi: 10.1364/OL.467724)
Yessenov, M., Free, J., Chen, Z. , Johnson, E. G., Lavery, M. P. J. , Alonso, M. A. and Abouraddy, A. F. (2022) Space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions. Nature Communications, 13, 4573. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32240-0) (PMID:35931684) (PMCID:PMC9356057)
Zhang, Y., Jiang, N., Zhao, A., Liu, S., Peng, J., Chen, L., Lavery, M. P.J. , Abbas, H. T. and Qiu, K. (2022) Security enhancement in coherent OFDM optical transmission with chaotic three-dimensional constellation scrambling. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(12), pp. 3749-3760. (doi: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3154091)
Dong, K., Cheng, M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Geng, S., Wang, P. and Guo, L. (2022) Scattering of partially coherent vortex beam by rough surface in atmospheric turbulence. Optics Express, 30(3), pp. 4165-4178. (doi: 10.1364/OE.444155) (PMID:35209659)
Dada, A. C. , Kaniewski, J., Gawith, C., Lavery, M. , Hadfield, R. H. , Faccio, D. and Clerici, M. (2021) Near-maximal two-photon entanglement for optical quantum communication at 2.1 μm. Physical Review Applied, 16(5), L051005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.L051005)
Malik, M. N. et al. (2021) Tunable orbital angular momentum converter based on integrated multiplexers. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(1), pp. 91-97. (doi: 10.1109/JLT.2020.3023595)
Greer, A. I.M. , Barbour, E., Cutiongco, M. F. , Stormonth-Darling, J. M. , Convery, N., Alsaigh, R. E., Lavery, M. P.J. and Gadegaard, N. (2020) Large volume nanoscale 3D printing: Nano-3DP. Applied Materials Today, 21, 100782. (doi: 10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100782)
Alsaigh, R. E., Bauer, R. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2020) Multi-layer light trapping structures for enhanced solar collection. Optics Express, 28(21), pp. 31714-31728. (doi: 10.1364/OE.403990)
Shi, C., Guo, L., Cheng, M., Lavery, M. P. J. and Liu, S. (2020) Aerosol scattering of vortex beams transmission in hazy atmosphere. Optics Express, 28(19), pp. 28072-28084. (doi: 10.1364/OE.401293) (PMID:32988086)
Viola, S., Chen, Z. , Yao, A. M., Valyrakis, M. , Kelly, A. E. , McKee, D. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2020) Degradation of light carrying orbital angular momentum by ballistic scattering. Physical Review Research, 2, 033093. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033093)
Richard, G. , Lay, H. S. , Giovannini, D., Cochran, S. , Spalding, G. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2020) Twisting waves increase the visibility of nonlinear behaviour. New Journal of Physics, 22(6), 063021. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab8aab)
Song, R., Richard, G. , Cheng, C. Y.-Y., Teng, L., Qiu, Y. , Lavery, M. P.J. , Trolier-McKinstry, S., Cochran, S. and Underwood, I. (2020) Multi-channel signal generator ASIC for acoustic holograms. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 67(1), pp. 49-56. (doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2938917)
Alsaigh, R. E., Bauer, R. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2020) Multi-element lenslet array for efficient solar collection at extreme angles of incidence. Scientific Reports, 10, 8741. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65437-8) (PMID:32457316) (PMCID:PMC7250910)
Mansour Abadi, M., Cox, M. A., Alsaigh, R. E., Viola, S., Forbes, A. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2019) A space division multiplexed free-space-optical communication system that can auto-locate and fully self align with a remote transceiver. Scientific Reports, 9, 19687. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55670-1) (PMID:31873095) (PMCID:PMC6928158)
Malik, M. N. et al. (2019) Demonstration of a multiplane OAM-wavelength packet switch controlled by a two-step scheduler implemented in FPGAs. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37(16), pp. 3948-3955. (doi: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2915347)
Mansour Abadi, M., Ghassemlooy, Z., Bhatnagar, M. R., Zvanovec, S., Khalighi, M.-A. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2018) Differential signalling in free-space optical communication systems. Applied Sciences, 8(6), 872. (doi: 10.3390/app8060872)
Lavery, M. P. J. et al. (2018) Tackling Africa’s digital divide. Nature Photonics, 12(5), pp. 249-252. (doi: 10.1038/s41566-018-0162-z)
Lavery, M. P.J. (2018) Vortex instability in turbulent free-space propagation. New Journal of Physics, 20, 043023. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aaae9e)
Scaffardi, M., Zhang, N., Malik, M. N., Lazzeri, E., Klitis, C. , Lavery, M. , Sorel, M. and Bogoni, A. (2018) Interconnection network architectures based on integrated orbital angular momentum emitters. Optics Communications, 408, pp. 63-67. (doi: 10.1016/j.optcom.2017.08.024)
Ndagano, B., Nape, I., Perez-Garcia, B., Scholes, S., Hernandez-Aranda, R. I., Konrad, T., Lavery, M. P.J. and Forbes, A. (2017) A deterministic detector for vector vortex states. Scientific Reports, 7, 13882. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-12739-z) (PMID:29066715) (PMCID:PMC5654751)
Lavery, M. P.J. , Peuntinger, C., Günthner, K., Banzer, P., Elser, D., Boyd, R. W., Padgett, M. J. , Marquardt, C. and Leuchs, G. (2017) Free-space propagation of high dimensional structured optical fields in an urban environment. Science Advances, 3(10), e1700552. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1700552)
Grillo, V. et al. (2017) Measuring the orbital angular momentum spectrum of an electron beam. Nature Communications, 8, 15536. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms15536) (PMID:28537248) (PMCID:PMC5458084)
McMorran, B. J., Harvey, T. R. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2017) Efficient sorting of free electron orbital angular momentum. New Journal of Physics, 19, 023053. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa5f6f)
Cox, M. A., Rosales-Guzmán, C., Lavery, M. P.J. , Versfeld, D. J. and Forbes, A. (2016) On the resilience of scalar and vector vortex modes in turbulence. Optics Express, 24(16), pp. 18105-18113. (doi: 10.1364/OE.24.018105) (PMID:27505776)
Long, L. et al. (2016) Orbital-angular-momentum-multiplexed free-space optical communication link using transmitter lenses. Applied Optics, 55(8), pp. 2098-2103. (doi: 10.1364/AO.55.002098) (PMID:26974808)
Ahmed, N. et al. (2016) Mode-division-multiplexing of multiple Bessel-Gaussian beams carrying orbital-angular-momentum for obstruction-tolerant free-space optical and millimetre-wave communication links. Scientific Reports, 6, 22082. (doi: 10.1038/srep22082) (PMID:26926068) (PMCID:PMC4772084)
Lavery, M. P.J. , Huang, H., Ren, Y., Xie, G. and Willner, A. E. (2016) Demonstration of a 280-Gbit/s free-space SDM communications link utilizing plane-wave spatial multiplexing. Optics Letters, 41(5), pp. 851-854. (doi: 10.1364/OL.41.000851) (PMID:26974062)
Ren, Y. et al. (2016) Experimental characterization of a 400 Gbit/s orbital angular momentum multiplexed free-space optical link over 120 m. Optics Letters, 41(3), pp. 622-625. (doi: 10.1364/OL.41.000622)
Huang, H. et al. (2015) Mode division multiplexing using an orbital angular momentum mode sorter and MIMO-DSP over a graded-index few-mode optical fibre. Scientific Reports, 5, 14931. (doi: 10.1038/srep14931) (PMID:26450398) (PMCID:PMC4598738)
Ren, Y. et al. (2015) Turbulence compensation of an orbital angular momentum and polarization-multiplexed link using a data-carrying beacon on a separate wavelength. Optics Letters, 40(10), pp. 2249-2252. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.002249) (PMID:26393711)
Xie, G. et al. (2015) Performance metrics and design considerations for a free-space optical orbital-angular-momentum–multiplexed communication link. Optica, 2(4), pp. 357-365. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.000357)
Xie, G. et al. (2015) Phase correction for a distorted orbital angular momentum beam using a Zernike polynomials-based stochastic-parallel-gradient-descent algorithm. Optics Letters, 40(7), pp. 1197-1200. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.001197)
Willner, A. E. et al. (2015) Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beams. Advances in Optics and Photonics, 7(1), pp. 66-106.
Milione, G. et al. (2015) 4 × 20 Gbit/s mode division multiplexing over free space using vector modes and a q-plate mode (de)multiplexer. Optics Letters, 40(9), pp. 1980-1983. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.001980)
Mirhosseini, M., Magaña-Loaiza, O. S., O’Sullivan, M. N., Rodenburg, B., Malik, M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Padgett, M. J. , Gauthier, D. J. and Boyd, R. W. (2015) High-dimensional quantum cryptography with twisted light. New Journal of Physics, 17(3), 033033. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/3/033033)
Padgett, M. J. , Miatto, F. M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Zeilinger, A. and Boyd, R. W. (2015) Divergence of an orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam upon propagation. New Journal of Physics, 17(2), 023011. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023011)
Ren, Y. et al. (2014) Adaptive-optics-based simultaneous pre- and post-turbulence compensation of multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams in a bidirectional free-space optical link. Optica, 1(6), pp. 376-382. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000376)
Yan, Y. et al. (2014) High-capacity millimetre-wave communications with orbital angular momentum multiplexing. Nature Communications, 5, 4876. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5876) (PMID:25224763) (PMCID:PMC4175588)
Lavery, M. P. J. , Barnett, S. M. , Speirits, F. C. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Observation of the rotational Doppler shift of a white-light, orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam backscattered from a rotating body. Optica, 1(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000001)
Speirits, F. C. , Lavery, M. P. J. , Padgett, M. J. and Barnett, S. M. (2014) Optical angular momentum in a rotating frame. Optics Letters, 39(10), pp. 2944-2946. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.002944)
Huang, H. et al. (2014) Tunable orbital angular momentum mode filter based on optical geometric transformation. Optics Letters, 39(6), pp. 1689-1692. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.001689) (PMID:24690870)
Malik, M., Mirhosseini, M., Lavery, M.P.J. , Leach, J., Padgett, M.J. and Boyd, R.W. (2014) Direct measurement of a 27-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum state vector. Nature Communications, 5, p. 3115. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms4115)
Huang, H. et al. (2014) 100 Tbit/s free-space data link enabled by three-dimensional multiplexing of orbital angular momentum, polarization, and wavelength. Optics Letters, 39(2), p. 197. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.000197) (PMID:24562105)
Fickler, R., Lapkiewicz, R., Huber, M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Padgett, M. J. and Zeilinger, A. (2014) Interface between path and orbital angular momentum entanglement for high-dimensional photonic quantum information. Nature Communications, 5, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5502)
Phillips, D. B., Lee, M. P., Speirits, F. C. , Barnett, S. M. , Simpson, S. H., Lavery, M. P. J. , Padgett, M. J. and Gibson, G. M. (2014) Rotational Doppler velocimetry to probe the angular velocity of spinning microparticles. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 90(1), 011801. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.011801)
Ren, Y. et al. (2014) Adaptive optics compensation of multiple orbital angular momentum beams propagating through emulated atmospheric turbulence. Optics Letters, 39(10), p. 2845. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.002845) (PMID:24978218)
Willner, M. J., Huang, H., Ahmed, N., Xie, G., Ren, Y., Yan, Y., Lavery, M. P. J. , Padgett, M. J. , Tur, M. and Willner, A. E. (2013) Reconfigurable orbital angular momentum and polarization manipulation of 100 Gbit/s QPSK data channels. Optics Letters, 38(24), pp. 5240-5243. (doi: 10.1364/OL.38.005240)
Ren, Y. et al. (2013) Atmospheric turbulence effects on the performance of a free space optical link employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing. Optics Letters, 38(20), pp. 4062-4065. (doi: 10.1364/OL.38.004062)
Lavery, M.P.J. , Speirits, F.C. , Barnett, S.M. and Padgett, M.J. (2013) Detection of a spinning object using light's orbital angular momentum. Science, 341(6145), pp. 537-540. (doi: 10.1126/science.1239936)
Dudley, A., Mhlanga, T., Lavery, M.P.J., McDonald, A., Roux, F.S., Padgett, M.J. and Forbes, A. (2013) Efficient sorting of Bessel beams. Optics Express, 21(1), pp. 165-171. (doi: 10.1364/OE.21.000165)
Lavery, M.P.J., Robertson, D.J., Berkhout, G.C.G., Love, G.D., Padgett, M.J. and Courtial, J. (2012) Refractive elements for the measurement of the orbital angular momentum of a single photon. Optics Express, 20(3), pp. 2110-2115. (doi: 10.1364/OE.20.002110)
Malik, M., O’Sullivan, M., Rodenburg, B., Mirhosseini, M., Leach, J., Lavery, M.P.J., Padgett, M.J. and Boyd, R.W. (2012) Influence of atmospheric turbulence on optical communications using orbital angular momentum for encoding. Optics Express, 20(12), p. 13195. (doi: 10.1364/OE.20.013195)
Rodenburg, B., Lavery, M.P.J., Malik, M., O’Sullivan, M.N., Mirhosseini, M., Robertson, D.J., Padgett, M.J. and Boyd, R.W. (2012) Influence of atmospheric turbulence on states of light carrying orbital angular momentum. Optics Letters, 37(17), p. 3735. (doi: 10.1364/OL.37.003735)
Lavery, M. P.J., Dudley, A., Forbes, A., Courtial, J. and Padgett, M. J. (2011) Robust interferometer for the routing of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum. New Journal of Physics, 13(9), 093014. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/9/093014)
Lavery, M. P.G. , Berkhout, G. C.G., Courtial, J. and Padgett, M. J. (2011) Measurement of the light orbital angular momentum spectrum using an optical geometric transformation. Journal of Optics, 13(6), 064006. (doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064006)
Berkhout, G. C. G., Lavery, M. P.J. , Padgett, M. J. and Beijersbergen, M. W. (2011) Measuring orbital angular momentum superpositions of light by mode transformation. Optics Letters, 36(10), pp. 1863-1865. (doi: 10.1364/OL.36.001863)
Berkhout, G. C.G., Lavery, M. P.J. , Courtial, J. , Beijersbergen, M. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2010) Efficient sorting of orbital angular momentum states of light. Physical Review Letters, 105(15), 153601. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.153601)
Book Sections
Chen, M. and Lavery, M. (2021) Optical angular momentum interaction with turbulent and scattering media. In: Al-Amri, M. D., Andrews, D. L. and Babiker, M. (eds.) Structured Light for Optical Communication. Elsevier, pp. 237-258. ISBN 9780128215104 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-821510-4.00015-7)
Conference or Workshop Item
Scaffardi, M., Andriolli, N., Malik, M. N., Zhang, N., Lazzeri, E., Klitis, C. , Lavery, M. , Sorel, M. and Bogoni, A. (2018) Multiplane Orbital Angular Momentum and Wavelength Switch based on Integrated Tunable Vortex Emitters. 2018 Optical Fiber Communication Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 11-15 Mar 2018. Th2A.44. ISBN 9781943580385 (doi: 10.1364/OFC.2018.Th2A.44)
Scaffardi, M., Zhang, N., Malik, M. N., Lazzeri, E., Klitis, C. , Lavery, M. , Sorel, M. and Bogoni, A. (2017) Two-Layer Interconnection Network Architectures Based on Integrated Concentric Orbital Angular Momentum Emitters. Nonlinear Optics 2017, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 17-21 July 2017. PM2D.2. (doi: 10.1364/PS.2017.PM2D.2)
Conference Proceedings
Zhang, Y., Jiang, N., Liu, S., Lavery, M. P. J. , Abbas, H. and Qiu, K. (2021) Physical Layer Encryption in CO-OFDM Employing Chaotic Mapping and Novel 3D 16-Ary Constellation. In: 6th International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET 2021), Chengdu, China, 4-6 Nov 2021, pp. 90-95. ISBN 9781665495752 (doi: 10.1109/UCET54125.2021.9674976)
Scaffardi, M. et al. (2018) The Orbital Angular Momentum of Light for Ultra-High Capacity Data Centers. In: 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON2018), Bucharest, Romania, 1-5 Jul 2018, ISBN 9781538666050 (doi: 10.1109/ICTON.2018.8473631)
Scaffardi, M. et al. (2018) OpenFlow-Control of an OAM-Based Two-Layer Switch Supporting 100Gb/s Real Data-Traffic. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, CA, USA, 13-18 May 2018, ISBN 9781943580422 (doi: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2018.SW4C.4)
Zhang, N. et al. (2018) 4 OAM × 4 WDM Optical Switching Based on an Innovative Integrated Tunable OAM Multiplexer. In: 2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 11-15 Mar 2018, ISBN 9781943580385
Viola, S., Valyrakis, M. , Kelly, A. and Lavery, M. P. (2016) Study of Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Crosstalk Induced by Propagation Through Water. In: 2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA, 05-10 Jun 2016, ISBN 9781943580118 (doi: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.SW1F.3)
Viola, S., Valyrakis, M. , Kelly, A. E. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2016) Study of Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Crosstalk Induced by Propagation Through Water. In: Advanced Free-Space Optical Communication Techniques and Applications II, Edinburgh, UK, 26-29 Sept 2016, p. 999103. (doi: 10.1117/12.2245487)
Padgett, M.J. , Giovannini, D., Lavery, M. , Romero, J., Barnett, S.M., Miatto, F., Boyd, R.W. and Leach, J. (2012) Photon Orbital Angular Momentum: Generation, Measurement and Application to QKD. In: Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Photonic Technologies, and Applications VI, Edinburgh, UK, 24-26 Sep 2012, 85421P-1-85421P-5. ISBN 9780819492838 (doi: 10.1117/12.975993)
Grants
Current Support
Office of Naval Research Global
Propagation Dynamics of Orbital Angular Momentum in Turbid Environments (OAM Dynamics)
UKRI New Horizons
Opto-Spintronic interfaces for next-generation quantum networks - (SpinNet)
UKRI Manufacturing Instrumenting the Future
Ultrasonically enabled supportless 3D printing (Sonobeamer)
Starshot Breakthrough Initiative
SALTIRE – Scottish Alliance for Laser Transceiver development for Interstellar REconnaissance
Royal Academy of Engineering, Engineering X
"Fibre” before the fibre: Bridging the Digital Divide in Informal Settlements.
Industrial Funding
Terabit free-space Orbital Angular Momentum communication technologies that will enable future 6G networks
European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies Open Scheme
SuperPixels: Redefining the way we sense the world. Prof Lavery is project coordinator.
EPSRC Standard Mode
High Dimensional Wireless Passive Optical Networking for Access Deployment (PON-HD)
Previous Support
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship
A toolkit for high dimensional communication
EPSRC IAA Grant Scheme
Wide-angle fluorescent optical receiver for high capacity underwater communications (GlowComm)
EPSRC IAA Grant Scheme
Development of Commercially Viable Free-space Optical Communications Technologies (FreeCOMM)
EPSRC First Grant Scheme
High Dimensional Free-Space Building-to-Building Link for Last-Mile Communications
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship
Quasi-optical Tool Box for High Dimensional mm-wave Communications
EPSRC ISF Grant Scheme
Free-Space Optical Links that bridge the Digital Divide
Royal Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering
Miniaturised Concentrated Solar Power energy generation for deployment across the developing world.
Supervision
- Daly, Ultan
Atmospheric monitoring for next generation cable free optical communication technologies - Hirsch, Lennart
Design of a THz-TDS System Optimised for High Signal-to-Noise Ratio - Monaghan, Martin
- Wang, Kuo
Advanced optical systems for terabit free-space communications
Teaching
ENG3014 Communication Systems 2020 - Present
ENG1003 Analogue Electronics 2015 - Present
Creativity in Engineering 2 2019 - 2022
Research datasets
2021
Dada, A. , Kaniewski, J., Gawith, C., Lavery, M. , Hadfield, R. , Faccio, D. and Clerici, M. (2021) Near-maximal two-photon entanglement for optical quantum communication at 2.1 μm. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)
