Pawel Bartlomiej Maniewski

Pawel Maniewski is working at the intersection of laser-material processing, glass science, and specialty optical fibre fabrication.

Pawel completed his PhD in 2022, where he developed laser-powder deposition (LPD), a laser-driven additive manufacturing technique for fused silica glass that enabled the firstfully 3D-printed fibre laser. Since then, his research has expanded this platform in two directions: engineerednon-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, andOptica, 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, 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, UK, and has recently been awarded a JSPS Fellowship to extend his work in specialty fibers with 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.

I am happy to host Master and Bachelor projects within engineering physics, photonics or materials science. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested.