CEO and Co-founder
Craig has over 23 years’ experience in photonics applications mainly in defence and security. After graduating from Southampton University in 1999 in Physics with Space Science, he joined the UK MOD’s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), which latterly became QinetiQ, as a Scientific Officer. During this time, he undertook research into hollow optical waveguides and coherent fibre laser combining. He also completed a PhD in high power erbium doped fibre amplifiers during his time there, affiliated with Heriot-Watt University. In 2006 Craig joined BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre in Bristol and was a Principal Scientist from 2009 until 2015, leading research in both free-space and fibre optics and laser directed energy. In 2015 Craig co-founded LumOptica with the goal of providing value-adding expertise and capability to customers developing world-class technology, as well as leading game-changing innovations in-house. As CEO, Craig is responsible for setting and implementing the company strategy, stakeholder engagement and coordinating in-house technical innovation. He occasionally gets his hands dirty in the lab when he can!
Craig is a Chartered Engineer and in 2018 was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
C. D. Stacey, A. G. Wishart, C. Stace, H. White, C. Percy, K. Rigby, G. Vieux, D. A. Jaroszynski, “Filament-mediated disruption of laser propagation”, SPIE Proceedings Volume 12739, High Power Lasers: Technology and Systems, Platforms, Effects VI; 1273904 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2673960 Peter E. Rees, Craig D. Stacey, Chris Stace, and Roy G. Clarke “Numerical modelling of laser filamentation”, Proc. SPIE 11162, High Power Lasers: Technology and Systems, Platforms, Effects III, 111620L (15 October 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2538461 C.D. Stacey, C. Stace, R.G. Clarke, “A Multi-Spectral Laser Beam Combiner Covering UV to Mid-IR”, 15th Electro-Optics and Infrared Conference, Defence Academy, Shrivenham, 20th-22nd June (2016) S. Lake, J. Rew, C D Stacey and J.P. Sargent, “The ‘speckleometer’: a compact, portable surface roughness measurement unit based on angular speckle correlation”, Insight – Non-Destructive Testing & Condition Monitoring, Vol. 57, No.9, (2015) C.D. Stacey, C. Stace, R.G. Clarke, “High power operation of an ultra-broadband spectral beam combiner”, OPTRO 2014, Paper 2966156, Jan 28-31 2014, Paris, France (2014) C.D. Stacey, C. Stace, R.G. Clarke, “Ultra-broadband Spectral Beam Combiner Spanning over Three Octaves”, Applied Optics, Vol. 52, No.29, pp.7200-7205 (2013) J.R. Pugh, J. Silva, J.L. Stokes, C.D. Stacey, G.R. Nash, J.G. Rarity, I.D. Lindsay and M.J. Cryan, “Focusing Bandwidth of Flat Lenses in the Mid-Infrared”, IET Micro and Nano Letters, Vol. 7, Iss. 11, pp.1105-1107 (2012) J. Pugh, J. Stokes, G. Nash, C.D. Stacey, M. Cryan, “Plasmonic Beam Shaping in the Mid-Infrared”, Proc. Frontiers in Optics 2011/Laser Science XXVII, 19th October 2011, San Jose, US (2011) V. Scarnera, B. Richards, A. Jha, G. Jose, C. Stacey, “Green up-conversion in Yb3+-Tb3+ and Yb3+-Tm3+Tb3+ doped fluoro-germanate bulk glass and fibre”, Optical Materials, Vol.33, Issue 2, 159-163, December 2010 (2010) C.D. Stacey, C. Clarke, R. G. Clarke, D. W. Charlton, “Demonstration of multimode interference effect for PCF connectors”, (Invited paper), 7714-27, SPIE Photonics Europe 2010, Brussels, Belgium. 12-16th April 2010. Craig Stacey, Christopher Clarke, Roy Clarke, David Charlton, “Multimode self-imaging enables novel microstructured fiber connectors”, SPIE Newsroom 12th April 2010, DOI: 10.1117/2.1201003.002669 D.C. Jones, A.J. Turner, A.M. Scott, S.M. Stone, R.G. Clarke, C. Stace, C.D. Stacey, “A multi-channel phase locked fibre bundle laser”, SPIE Proc., Photonics West 2010, San Francisco, USA. 25th-29th Jan 2010 V. Scarnera, B. Richards, A. Jha, C.D. Stacey, “Up-conversion tuneable green fibre laser”, SGT Conference 2009, 16th-18th September 2009, Lancaster University, UK. C.D. Stacey et al, ”Visible Fibre Lasers for EOCM”, 7th EO/IR Symposium, 15th-17th July 2009, Defence Academy, Shrivenham, UK. C.D. Stacey et al, ”Laser DEW Technology”, 3rd Electronic Warfare Symposium, 5th-6th Dec 2007, Defence Academy, Shrivenham, UK. C.D.Stacey, R.M.Jenkins, J.Banerji and A.R.Davis, “Demonstration of fundamental mode propagation in highly multimode fibre for high power EDFAs”, Optics Communications, vol.269, pp 310-314, 2007 D.C.Jones, C.D.Stacey, A.M. Scott, “Phase stabilisation of a large-mode-area ytterbium-doped fibre amplifier”, Optics Letters, Vol.32, No.5, 2007 R M Jenkins, K D Ridley and C D Stacey, “Measurements of Speckle Fields with a Multimode Local Oscillator”, DTC conference paper 2006, 3rd EMRS DTC Conference July 2006, Edinburgh, UK C.D.Stacey and R.M.Jenkins, “Demonstration of fundamental mode propagation in highly multimode fibre for high power EDFAs”, paper CJ-16-WED, Technical Digest CLEO Europe/EQEC 2005 Munich 2005 R M Jenkins, C D Stacey and K D Ridley, “Measurements of Speckle Fields with a Multimode Local Oscillator”, DTC conference paper 2005, 2nd EMRS DTC Conference July 2005, Edinburgh, UK. C.D.Stacey, “Measurements of speckle fields with a mode-tuneable local oscillator”, Rank Prize Funds Mini-Symposium on Orbital Angular Momentum of Photons, Helical Beams and Optical Vortices, 12th-15th May 2003, Grasmere, UK