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Academic staff

 

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François Ladouceur

Associate Professor, Head of Photonics Group

Research Interests
Integrated optics modelling and optimisation of photonics devices
Organic and nano-materials for photonics devices
Quantum Key Distribution Systems
Self-assembly structures for display application
 
   

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Gang-Ding Peng

Associate Professor in Photonics

Research Interests
Special silica optical fibres and devices
Application-specific polymer optical fibres and devices
Optical fibre sensors
Planar photonic and waveguide devices
Optical fibre communication systems, WDM systems, office and home networks
Photonic signal processing techniques

 
   

 

Steven G. Duvall

Visiting Professorial Fellow in Photonics

Research Interests
Computer-aided design
Optimisation of electronic and photonic systems
 
   

 

Iain Skinner

Senior Lecturer in Photonics

Research Interests
Nonlinear optical waveguides
Modal propagation in optical waveguides
Optical signal processing
 
   

 

Ronelle Geldenhuys

Senior Lecturer in Photonics

Research Interests
All-optical signal processing
Optical packet switching
Optical buffering and contention resolution
Polymer photonic devices
 
   

Research students

Anson Yeung, Ph.D Segmented cladding fibres: Cross Fibre in collaboration with Prof. K.S. Chiang at City University of Hong-Kong (supervisor: Peng, co-supervisor: Chu)

Helmut Yu, Ph.D Tailoring the functionality of microstructured polymer optical fibres in collaboration with Dr Barton and Dr Eijkelenborg at University of Sydney

Ian Leung, Ph.D Optical Fibre Hydrophones (supervisor: Peng, co-supervisor: Skinner)

Shigang Chen, PhD, Optical fibre sensors (supervisor: Peng, co-supervisor: Sen)

Asrul Azmi, PhD, Optical fibre hydrophones (supervisor: Peng, co-supervisor: Sen)

Philip Ji, PhD, Optical WDM networks (supervisor: Peng, co-supervisor: Wang)

Frans Penny, PhD, Optical fibre hydrophones (supervisor: Amal, co-supervisor: Scott, Peng)

Ben Zhao, Masters student Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals for Photonics Devices

 
   

Research staff

Paul Childs
Mark Hiscocks
Allan Wong
   

 

Administrative staff

Stella Chau