11月15日下午三点半，英国南安普顿大学Dr Jacob Mackenzie在物电学院四楼学术报告厅作了题为“Planar waveguides: the laser architecture in the middle”的学术报告，会议由沈德元院长主持，重点实验室教师和研究生参加并聆听了报告。

    报告人简介：

    Dr J. I. Mackenzie is a graduate of Macquarie University, Australia; afterwards he started in industry developing diode-pumped solid-state laser range finders for airborne and naval applications. He joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton in 1999, obtaining his doctoral degree in 2003, on compact solid-state laser devices based on a newly developed concept - the double-clad planar waveguide (PW). In 2004 he was a recipient of a Royal Academy of Engineering/Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (RAEng/EPSRC) Post-doctoral Fellowship, working on slab laser systems. As leader of the Planar Waveguide and Slab Lasers (PWSL) research group in the ORC, his research interest’s focus on novel laser systems, predominantly with a planar geometry. A senior member of the OSA and member of the SPIE, he is on several Solid State Lasers (SSL) program committees at international conferences (ASSL, CELO Europe, Photonics West – LASE, ACOFT), and is program co-chair for the SSL & Applications conference at Photonics Europe.