Professor Richard DeLaRue

Telephone: 0141-330 4793

E-Mail: R.Delarue@elec.gla.ac.uk

Room Number: 304-70

Personal Information

Richard De La Rue was born in Reading, UK, in 1945. He graduated with BSc(Eng) Hons. in Electrical Engineering from University College London (UCL) in 1966, subsequently obtaining the M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1968 and the PhD degree, also at UCL, in 1972. A paper based on the PhD work received the premium for the best paper published in Proc. IEE in 1972. In 1971, he was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, becoming Senior Lecturer in 1982, Reader in 1985 and Professor of Optoelectronics in 1986. He spent a six month period at Bell Labs, Murray Hill N.J. USA, in 1978 and three months as a Monbusho/British Council sponsored lecturer at Tohoku University, Sendai Japan in 1980.

Richard De La Rue has contributed significantly to integrated optics research in glass-based waveguides, including the use of ion-exchange techniques. Such waveguides have been used in more recent research on optical waveguide molecular sensors. Work on lithium niobate led to the first publications in the UK on waveguide devices (both electrooptic and acoustooptic) and some of the earliest waveguide devices in the world based on proton-exchange in lithium niobate. He was involved in pioneering work on electron beam induced domain reversal to produce periodic structures for quasi-phase matched SHG. Other work has included fundamental studies of the proton-exchange process in lithium niobate and lithium tantalate. Recent work has been concerned primarily with integration technology and optoelectronic devices based on III-V semiconductor quantum well heterostructures.

Research has included quantum well intermixing processes in III-V semiconductors to shift the refractive index and absorption edge - and novel forms of DFB and DBR laser using deep surface gratings. He has also contributed to the development of ring geometry semiconductor lasers - particularly large diameter mode-locked devices. Following an extended period as leader of the SERC/EPSRC Rolling Grant supported optoelectronics research activity at Glasgow University, he has now shifted a significant part of his research effort into the photonic bandgap structures/microcavities area. He has published more than 160 articles and papers in journals, book chapters and conference presentations. He was co-editor, with John Marsh, of ïWaveguide OptoelectronicsÍ, based on the 1990 NATO ASI held in Glasgow.

Professor De La Rue is a member of IEE, OSA and IEEE and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1989.