B.Sc. Ph.D. FinstP CPhys
Room: Harris Building N1.10
Telephone: +44 (0) 1382 384564 [ext. 84564]. Fax: +44 (0) 1382 388313
E-mail: w.a.gillespie@dundee.ac.uk
Research group(s): Free-Electron Lasers& Ultrafast Electron Beam Diagnostics (FEL), Materials Engineering and Laser Technologies (MELT), Mobile Computing And Smart Systems (MoCASS)
Profile
Allan Gillespie currently occupies the Chair of Photonics at Dundee University.
Before joining Dundee University in 2004, Prof Gillespie was Professor of Photonics at the University of Abertay Dundee, and was the Director of the EPICentre research laboratory at that institution. His research work at Abertay ranged from medium-energy nuclear physics with electron accelerators, and free-electron laser physics and technology, through photorefractive nonlinear optics and real-time holography, to the physics and applications of display devices, including wearable and wireless-connected systems.
Part of his early research career was spent at the National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (NIKHEF) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he worked on the design of high-resolution magnetic spectrometers for electron beam analysis, and electron beam diagnostics systems.
He spent a period as Visiting Scientist at the Hansen High-Energy Physics Laboratory (HEPL) at Stanford University in California, USA, the first demonstrators of the free-electron laser (FEL) principle. His work there focused on electron accelerator design and beam diagnostics for FELs, and he maintains regular research contacts with Stanford, SLAC and several other US FEL laboratories. The Dundee FEL group also carries out experiments at the FELIX FEL facility at Rijnhuizen, The Netherlands, and the FLASH FEL at DESY, Hamburg, Germany. It also has strong collaborative links with STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, with the Alpha-X laser wakefield accelerator project at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, and the SCAPA facility developments arising from this activity.
The smart systems and location-based wireless research activities are pursued with colleagues at Aberdeen University and elsewhere.
Professional Biography
- BSc (Hons, 1) in Natural Philosophy (Physics), University of Glasgow.
- PhD University of Glasgow in Nuclear Physics, “Electron Scattering from the Even Isotopes of Cadmium”
- FInstP and CPhys, Institute of Physics, UK
Research Interests
- Free-electron laser physics and technology
- Ultrafast electro-optic diagnostics for relativistic electron beams in accelerators, linear colliders and advanced light sources
- Advanced particle accelerator and light source design (e.g. for the CLIC linear collider at CERN and the New Light Source project in the UK)
- Smart systems and location-aware wireless technologies
- Emerging display technologies
Recent Publications
- I Wilke, A M MacLeod, W A Gillespie, G Berden, G M H Knippels, A F G van der Meer, Single-shot electron-beam bunch length measurements, Phys Rev Lett 88(12), 2002
- G Berden, S P Jamison, A M MacLeod, W A Gillespie, B Redlich and AFG van der Meer, Phys Rev Lett 93, 2004
- SP Jamison, AM MacLeod, G Berden, DA Jaroszynski, WA Gillespie, Temporally-resolved electro-optic effect, Optics Letters 31(11), 2006
- G. Berden, W.A. Gillespie, S.P. Jamison, E.-A. Knabbe, A.M. MacLeod, A.F.G. van der Meer, P.J. Phillips, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, P. Schmeuser, and B. Steffen, Benchmarking of electro-optic monitors for femtosecond electron bunches. Phys Rev Lett, Sep 2007
- B. Steffen, V. Arsov, G. Berden, W.A. Gillespie, S.P. Jamison, A.M. MacLeod, A.F.G. van der Meer, P.J. Phillips, H. Schlarb, B. Schmitt, and P. Schmüser Electro-optic time profile monitors for femtosecond electron bunches at the soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH Physical Review Special Topics – Accelerators and Beams 12, 032802 (2009)
- S. P. Jamison, G. Berden, P. J. Phillips, W. A. Gillespie, and A. M. MacLeod Upconversion of a relativistic Coulomb field terahertz pulse to the near infrared Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 231114 (2010)
Address for Correspondence
Professor Allan Gillespie
Carnegie Laboratory of Physics
Division of Electronic Engineering and Physics
University of Dundee
Nethergate
Dundee
DD1 4HN