Pawel Bartlomiej Maniewski

Pawel Maniewski is a researcher working at the intersection of laser-material processing, glass science, and specialty optical fibre fabrication, currently based at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, alongside his role as a Visiting Fellow at the Optoelectronic Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK.

Pawel completed his PhD in Physics in 2022, where he developed laser-powder deposition (LPD), a laser-driven additive manufacturing technique for fused silica glass that enabled the first fully 3D-printed fibre laser. Since then, his research has expanded this platform in two directions: engineered non-axisymmetric ("flat") optical fibres for structural and optofluidic sensing, and rare-earth-doped active fibres with precisely tailored dopant environments for gain and coherence control. His work has been published in journals includingNature Communications, and Optica, with several papers selected for issue covers, and has been recognised with the SPIE 3D Printing Best Paper Award, among other honours. His novel noncircular optical fibers were used in fibre-based structural sensing was also featured by the BBC, following its first validation under real-world aerodynamic conditions.

Pawel currently leads the specialty fibre fabrication within a £2.2M EPSRC-funded consortium at Southampton, and has recently been awarded a JSPS Short-term Fellowship to continue this work at the University of Tokyo.

At KTH he is extending his laser-driven fabrication platform toward quantum technology applications, including fibre-integrated laser sources, quantum sensing elements, and rare-earth-based quantum memory components.