Keiron Boyd

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Date Institution name Country Title
2013 University of Adelaide Australia PhD

Year Citation
2020 Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Simakov, N., Boyd, K., Carmody, N., Veitch, P., . . . Munch, J. (2020). Cryogenically cooled, Ho:YAG, Q-switched laser. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 126(4), 1-6.
DOI Scopus14 WoS9
2018 Gow, P. C., Jantzen, A., Boyd, K., Simakov, N., Daniel, J., Gray, A. C., . . . Holmes, C. (2018). Consolidation of flame hydrolysis deposited silica with a 9.3 µm wavelength CO2 laser. Electronics Letters, 54(15), 945-947.
DOI Scopus2
2018 Oermann, M. R., Carmody, N., Hemming, A., Rees, S., Simakov, N., Swain, R., . . . Haub, J. (2018). Coherent beam combination of four holmium amplifiers with phase control via a direct digital synthesizer chip. Optics Express, 26(6), 6715-6723.
DOI Scopus14 Europe PMC5
2017 Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Simakov, N., Boyd, K., Haub, J., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2017). High power cryogenic Ho:YAG laser. Optics Express, 25(25), 31889-31895.
DOI Scopus22 WoS16 Europe PMC4
2016 Boyd, K., Simakov, N., Hemming, A., Daniel, J., Swain, R., Mies, E., . . . Haub, J. (2016). CO2 laser-fabricated cladding light strippers for high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers. Applied Optics, 55(11), 2915-2920.
DOI Scopus37
2015 Boyd, K., Rees, S., Simakov, N., Daniel, J. M. O., Swain, R., Mies, E., . . . Haub, J. (2015). High precision 9.6 μm CO2 laser end-face processing of optical fibres. Optics Express, 23(11), 15065-15071.
DOI Scopus16
2014 Ruan, Y., Boyd, K., Ji, H., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Munch, J., & Monro, T. (2014). Tellurite microspheres for nanoparticle sensing and novel light sources. Optics Express, 22(10), 11995-12006.
DOI Scopus31 WoS28 Europe PMC13
2012 Boyd, K., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Monro, T., & Munch, J. (2012). Surface tension and viscosity measurement of optical glasses using a scanning CO₂ laser. Optical Materials Express, 2(8), 1101-1110.
DOI Scopus45 WoS42

Year Citation
2023 Ganija, M., Boyd, K., & Munch, J. (2023). High-Power Q-switched Near Infrared Cryogenic Lasers. In 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (pp. 1). Munich, Germany: IEEE.
DOI Scopus2
2021 Ganija, M., Boyd, K., Hemming, A., Carmody, N., Simakov, N., Veitch, P., & Munch, J. (2021). High Energy Cryogenically Cooled Ho:YAG Oscillator. In 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2021 (pp. 1). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2020 Ganija, M., Hemming, A., Boyd, K., Gambell, A., & Simakov, N. (2020). Progress towards High Power Scaling of Ho: YAG Lasers. In 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2020 - Proceedings (pp. 2 pages). Sydney, Australia: Optica Publishing Group.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2019 Simakov, N., Hemming, A., Carter, A., Boyd, K., Swain, R., Mies, E., . . . Haub, J. (2019). Recent efforts in power scaling of holmium doped fibre sources. In Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11206.
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2019 McAfee, D., Boyd, K., Ganija, M., Simakov, N., Carmody, N., Munch, J., . . . Haub, J. (2019). Mode-locked Holmium fibre laser. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11200 (pp. 1-3). online: SPIE.
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2017 Boyd, K., Daniel, J., Rees, S., Simakov, N., Hemming, A., Andrew Clarkson, W., & Haub, J. (2017). Rapid phase plate fabrication using a scanning CO2 laser. In Optics Infobase Conference Papers Vol. Part F82-CLEO_Europe 2017.
2017 Simakov, N., Hemming, A., Boyd, K., Davidson, A., Daniel, J., Carmody, N., . . . Haub, J. (2017). Mitigation of spectral broadening in high peak power holmium-doped fibre sources. In Optics Infobase Conference Papers Vol. Part F82-CLEO_Europe 2017.
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2017 Oermann, M., Carmody, N., Hemming, A., Rees, S., Simakov, N., Swain, R., . . . Haub, J. (2017). Coherent beam combination of four holmium amplifiers using direct phase control from a DDS chip and a SPGD algorithm. In Optics Infobase Conference Papers Vol. Part F75-ASSL 2017 (pp. ATu3A.3). OSA.
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2017 Hemming, A., Simakov, N., Davidson, A., Corena, L., Boyd, K., Daniel, J. M. O., . . . Haub, J. (2017). Large pedestal thulium-doped fibres for the pumping of holmium-doped gain media. In Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 10604 (pp. 138-139).
2016 Boyd, K., Rees, S., Simakov, N., Daniel, J. M. O., Swain, R., Mies, E., . . . Haub, J. (2016). Precision CO2 laser processing of optical fibres for rapid contamination free device fabrication. In Optics Infobase Conference Papers (pp. AW4C.2). OSA.
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2016 Simakov, N., Hemming, A., Boyd, K., Daniel, J. M. O., Carmody, N., Davidson, A., . . . Haub, J. (2016). Recent progress in pulsed thulium and holmium fibre lasers. In Optics Infobase Conference Papers (pp. AT2C.1). OSA.
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2016 Boyd, K., Rees, S., Simakov, N., Daniel, J. M. O., Swain, R., Mies, E., . . . Haub, J. (2016). Advances in CO2 laser fabrication for high power fibre laser devices. In J. Ballato (Ed.), Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 9728 (pp. 972838). SPIE.
DOI Scopus3
2014 Boyd, K., Simakov, N., Daniel, J., Swain, R., Mies, E., Hemming, A., . . . Haub, J. (2014). Novel technique for the CO2 laser fabrication of optical devices with sub-micrometer ablation depth precision. In European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC (pp. 1-3). IEEE.
DOI Scopus1
2013 Ruan, Y., Boyd, K., Ji, H., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Munch, J., & Monro, T. (2013). Upconversion lasing for index sensing and strong amplitude modulation of WGMs in Er-Yb co-doped tellurite spheres. In Proceedings of CLEO 2013: Science and Innovations (pp. 1-5). United States: Optical Society OSA.
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2011 Boyd, K., & Munch, J. (2011). Measuring the evolution of femtosecond pulses in fibre optic tapers by interferometric reflectometry. In Proceedings of the international Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) and the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optic (pp. 947-949). Sydney, Australia: IEEE.
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2010 Boyd, K., Murphy, D., Munch, J., & Monro, T. (2010). Elliptical CO2 laser beam tapering of pressurised bismuth microstructured optical fiber. In Proceedings of 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2010 (pp. 1-4). CD: Australian Institute of Physics.
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Year Citation
2025 Ganija, M., Boyd, K., & Munch, J. (2025). Highly Efficient Cryogenically Cooled Ho: YLF Oscillator. Poster session presented at the meeting of 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference CLEO Europe Eqec 2025. IEEE.
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2014 Ruan, Y., Ji, H., Boyd, K., & Monro, T. (2014). Comparison of the microsphere cavity with different refractive index for sensing and nonlinear. Poster session presented at the meeting of International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Adelaide, South Australia.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor High Energy Lasers and High Intensity Light-Matter Interactions Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Henry Duncan Rogers
2025 Co-Supervisor Investigation of amplifier stages for gas phase compression of ultrashort pulse laser sources. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Andrew Phillip Matulick
2024 Co-Supervisor Research and Development in Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser (USPL) machining systems in the 2–5-micron region for the investigation of fundamental laser/material interactions for industrial and medical applications. Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Sitivi Napier Sooaemalelagi
2024 Co-Supervisor USPL Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jonte Colin Reilly
2023 Co-Supervisor Experimental and theoretical investigation of energy and repetition rate scaling of Ultrashort pulsed lasers for Near and Mid infrared applications Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Michael James Murray

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Passively Q-Switched and Mode-Locked Pulse Generation in a Ho:YAG Laser Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Jonte Colin Reilly
2022 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Pulse Stretching, Compression and Supercontinuum Generation in a Mode-locked Erbium Fibre Laser Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Andrew Phillip Matulick
2022 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Development of a High Repetition Rate, Electro-optically Q-switched Ho:YAG Laser Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Henry Duncan Rogers
2021 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Experimental and Numerical Optimisation of a SESAM Mode-locked Holmium Fibre Laser Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Alexandros Kolovinos
2019 - 2020 External Supervisor Operating Regimes and Automated Control of Holmium and Thulium Non-linear Polarisation Rotation Mode-locked Fibre Optic Lasers Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr David Michael McAfee

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