Richard is Professor of Photonics in the Electrical Engineering Division

Research Interests

Professor Richard Penty studied for his doctoral research in the Cambridge University Engineering Department on optical fibre devices for signal processing applications, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989. He returned to Cambridge in 2001, having been a Professor at the University of Bristol. His research interests include high-speed optical communications systems, high brightness lasers, optical amplifiers, high speed and high power semiconductor lasers and radio over fibre and LAN systems. He has been an author of in excess of 400 refereed journal and conference papers and is Editor-in-Chief of IET Optoelectronics.