Research
Design, fabrication and characterization of photonic components; fibre and waveguide lasers; optical fibre sensors; photosensitivity; photonic packaging; state-of-the-art laser irradiation facilities to design, fabricate, and characterize optical components and sub-systems.
Application
Optical fiber sensors and devices, including Plasmonics for : oil and gas exploration and exploitation; structural and environmental sensing; biomedical instrumentation; telecommunications.
Activities
- Chair: Symposium on on surface functionalization of optical fiber and waveguide based bio- and chemical-sensors, OSA Optical Congress on Advanced Photonics 2014
- Chair: Chair: Photonics North 2013
- Program Chair of International Optical Fiber Sensors conference, DFS-21 (2011)
- Technical program committee: IEEE Photonics Conference 2009-2014
- Technical program committee: OSA Sensors 2012-14