(IOD-02) M.Sc Postgraduate Ultrashort Pulse Generation Job in Cork City, Ireland

Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork is one of Europe's leading research centres, specialising in ICT hardware research, with ca 420 staff, students and academic & industrial visiting researchers. Tyndall undertakes internationally-leading research into information and communications technology.

Tyndall uses its facilities and expertise to support industry and academia nationally and provides large numbers of highly qualified graduate students, key to the development of Ireland’s national economy. Tyndall has over 200 industry partnerships and customers worldwide. Several start up companies in Ireland have been based on technology originating at Tyndall. The Institute’s researchers include 125 PhD and 10 Masters students, and 38 nationalities are represented within the institute at all levels, with its research published in 200 peer reviewed publications last year.

(IOD-02) M.Sc Postgraduate Ultrashort Pulse Generation Job Description

The Photonics Centre at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork invites applicants who will join established teams within the Photonic Centre, will carry out research in purpose-built photonic and microelectronic systems research facilities at Tyndall National Institute and will be involved in collaboration with other groups in Tyndall and elsewhere. Training opportunities will be provided to acquire additional experimental, circuit design and numerical research skills as appropriate.

This work will use semiconductor quantum dots, which are nanoscale inorganic materials, in order to achieve extremely short optical pulses. Such pulses find use in, for example, high-bit-rate optical communications, wave division multiplexing, microscopy, multiphoton imaging and surgery. The pulses will be generated using a technique known as “passive mode-locking”, where an absorber section within a quantum dot lasing cavity helps to create the pulses, and the repetition rate or time between successive pulses is controlled by the length of the cavity. Novel quantum structures will be designed to allow the generation of ultrashort pulses with a high peak power and a wide-gain bandwidth. The research project will involve the characterisation and modelling of quantum dot laser structures using a variety of techniques some of which include: time resolved photoluminescence, modal gain/absorption measurements, pump probe spectroscopy and semiconductor device processing.  During the course of this project the successful applicant will become an expert in the fields of semiconductor device characterisation, processing and quantum-optoelectronic analysis. It will provide an excellent base for a career in the high-value industry of optoelectronics and ultrafast related research.
 
M.Sc Details
CIT/Tyndall has a vacancy for an MSc position, fully funded for two years (including MSc studentship and fee) by the Institutes of Technology Ireland (IOTI) under the Postgraduate Scholarship Initiative 2013. The project will pair a student with a highly motivated world class research group based in CIT/Tyndall. The student will be registered as an MSc student at Cork Institute of Technology (www.cit.ie), and will carry out the majority of his/her research at the Tyndall National Institute (www.tyndall.ie). The student will be supervised by Dr. Ian O’Driscoll of the Photonic Device Dynamics Group at CIT/Tyndall (www.physics.cit.ie/photonics).
 
The minimum academic qualification for this position is a first or upper second class honours degree (or an equivalent international degree) in physics, electrical engineering or related relevant discipline.
  
Applicants are invited to start from October 2013. Please apply with your CV and cover letter by the 'apply' button below
 
At this time, Tyndall National Institute does not require the assistance of recruitment agencies.
 

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