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A/PROF PETER FARRELL



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Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/people/pfarrell/index.html

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Griffith University 31-Dec-1984
Doctor of Philosophy Griffith University 31-Dec-1992

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Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A note on the stability of single frequency laser diode models
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 1-20 (Paper 175101)
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  • Revisiting excitation pattern design for magnetic resonance imaging through optimisation of the signal contrast efficiency
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 317-328
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A Framework for Evaluating the System Penalty From Polarization-Mode Dispersion Using Different Performance Monitoring Techniques


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 1790-1797
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  • Extremum Seeking Control of Cascaded Raman Optical Amplifiers
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 396-407
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  • Optical impairment outage computation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 10529-10534
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  • Switching Energy and Device Size Limits on Digital Photonic Signal Processing Technologies

    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 938 - 945
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Novel Outage Probability Based RWA Algorithm


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2008
    Conference Publication: OFCNFOEC 2008: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
    Page numbers: 1-3 (PAPER JThA87)
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Challenging the optimality of the pulse excitation in magnetic resonance imaging
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 10301-10306
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Magnetic resonance described in the excitation dependent rotating frame of reference
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: 'Personalized Healthcare through Technology'
    Page numbers: 5769-5773
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Revisiting the Bloch Equation through Averaging
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 4121-4126
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Optimal refractive index design for an optical fibre-based evanescent field sensor
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Systems & Control Letters
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 634-645
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Comparison of methods for monitoring PMD-induced penalty
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Enabling ASON routing via novel signal quality metrics
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Order of magnitude estimates of size and power for all-optical switches
    Year: 2007
    Event name: COIN-ACOFT 2007
    Conference Publication: International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN) with the 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT)
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Outage and capacity based path selection in optical networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ECOC07: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Conference Publication: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: VDE Verlag GMBH(Berlin)
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  • Quantifying the dependence of degree of polarization on polarization mode dispersion and the optical spectrum
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007: The Future of Optical Communications is Here
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • The photonic bottleneck
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Experimental Comparison of PMD-Induced System Penalty Models


    Year: 2006
    Journal: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1149-1151
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  • Analysis of changes in optical fibers during arc-fusion splicing by use of quantitative phase imaging
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Microscopy Research and Technique
    Volume: 69
    Page numbers: 847-851
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  • Automatic laser shutdown implications for all optical data networks
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 674-680
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  • Frequency-correlation analysis of PMD emulators with symmetric polarization scrambling
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 3897-3906
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An application of extremum seeking in cascaded optical amplifier control
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Proceedings
    Page numbers: 4472-4477
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Asynchronous measurement of chromatic dispersion from waveform distortion
    Year: 2006
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC: Linking the Science and Business of Optical Communications
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC: Linking the Science and Business of Optical Communications
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Automatically switched optical network path selection using eye closure penalty
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Experimental comparison of feedback signals for monitoring polarization mode dispersion
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT % AOS
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology and Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 82-84
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • On cascaded Raman amplifier control
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 4-6
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • On linear control of backward pumped Raman amplifiers
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
    Conference Publication: Preprints of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
    Page numbers: 547-552
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • On output power regulation in backward pumped Raman amplifiers
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 57-59
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Optical power constraints in future all-optical networks
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 377-381
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Taking the physical layer seriously in ASTNs
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 10-12
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Transient control in ASONS
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Broad-band concatenated-section PMD emulator design for low interchannel correlation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1019-1021
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Optical performance monitoring with tunable narrowband optical filtering.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 8927-8932
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Refractive index profiling of optical fibers using differential interference contrast microscopy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 2149-2151
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A novel broadband asynchronous histogram technique for optical performance monitoring
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • A numerical optimal control approach to the design of an optical fibre-based evanescent field.
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 16th IFAC World Congress 2005
    Conference Publication: 16th IFAC World Congress 2005
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • All-order PMD penalty prediction using SOP string lengths
    Year: 2005
    Event name: LEOS 2005
    Conference Publication: 2005 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 702-703
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Comparison and implications of PMD-induced system penalty models
    Year: 2005
    Event name: BGPP/ACOFT 2005
    Conference Publication: Bragg Gratings, Poling & Photosensitivity/ 30th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (BGPP/ACOFT) 2005 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Tour Hosts(Sydney)
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  • Design and optimization of polarization mode dispersion emulators for low background autocorrelation
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Modelling PMD-induced system penalties
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 31st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
    Conference Publication: 31st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Proceedings
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 339-340
    Publisher: IEE - Institution of Electrical Engineers(London)
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  • Optical monitoring issues in highly transparent optical networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Tencon 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from IEEE Tencon '05 Conference
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Optical performance monitoring in automatically switchable optical networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
    Conference Publication: 2005 International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
    Page numbers: 1-4 (paper no.562)
    Publisher: Mahanakorn University of Technology(Bangkok)
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  • Optimal refractive index profile design for a pair of optical fibre-based devices
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05
    Conference Publication: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 48-53
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An optimal control problem arising in the design of optical fibre sensors
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Page numbers: 2742-2747
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • An optimization problem arising in optical fibre sensor design
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: CD Proceedings ACOFT/AOS Conference 2004
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian National University(Canberra)
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  • Laser safety issues in next generation all optical networks
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ACOFT/AOS '04
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: ACOFT/AOS 2004(Canberra)
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  • Optical performance monitoring combining optical signal processing and histogram techniques
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ACOFT/AOS '04
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: ACOFT/AOS 2004(Canberra)
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  • Polarisation mode dispersion emulator design for low background autocorrelation
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ACOFT/AOS '04
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: ACOFT/AOS 2004(Canberra)
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  • Spectrally resolved performance monitoring using narrowband filters for optical networks
    Year: 2004
    Event name: OECC/COIN 2004
    Conference Publication: Technical digest: OECC/COIN 2004: 9th optoelectronics & communications conference. 3rd international conference on optical internet.
    Page numbers: 652-653
    Publisher: IEICE Institue of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers(Tokyo)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Nondestructive imaging of a type I optical fiber Bragg grating
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Optics Letters
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 789-791
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Approximating the Finite Hilbert Transform via Trapezoid Type Inequalities
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Computers & Mathematics with Applications
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 1359-1369
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  • Determination of bending-induced strain in optical fibers by use of quantitative phase imaging
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Optics Letters
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 86-88
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  • One-dimensional laser cooling of an atomic beam in a sealed vapor cell
    Year: 2002
    Journal: American Journal of Physics
    Volume: 70
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 71-75
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  • Strain dependence of fluorescence from rare-earth-doped optical fibres: application to the simultaneous, co-located, measurement of strain and temperature
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Composite Structures
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 373-379
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Characterisation of induced axial stress in bent optical fibres


    Year: 2002
    Event name: ACOFT 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology
    Page numbers: 65-67
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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  • Modelling of the concentration dependence of fluorescence from neodymium-doped optical fibres and its application to strain and temperature sensing


    Year: 2002
    Event name: ACOFT 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology
    Page numbers: 35-37
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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  • DIC imaging of an optical fiber Bragg grating
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit
    Conference Publication: Technical Digest - Changing at light speed
    Page numbers: 700
    Publisher: OSA - Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Modelling strain dependence of fluorescence from doped optical fibres: application to Neodymium
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 15th Optical Fiber Sensors Conference Technical Digest (OFS 2002)
    Conference Publication: 15th Optical Fiber Sensors Conference Technical Digest (OFS 2002)
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 439-442
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Near Field Measurements of a Wollaston Prism Shear Displacement
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2002
    Conference Publication: Near Field Measurements of a Wollaston Prism Shear Displacement
    Page numbers: 331-333
    Publisher: The Australian Institute of Physics(Cronulla)
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  • Temperature and strain measurement using a combined fiber Bragg grating fluorescence intensity ratio technique in Er3+-doped fiber
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 15th Optical Fiber Sensors Conference Technical Digest (OFS 2002)
    Conference Publication: 15th Optical Fiber Sensors Conference Technical Digest (OFS 2002)
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 107-110
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2001

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Analysis of physical changes to optical fibre resulting from annealing processes
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Eleventh Conference on Sensors and their Applications 2001
    Conference Publication: Sensors and their Applications XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Sensors and their Applications
    Page numbers: 347-353
    Publisher: IOP Publishing
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  • Characterising optical fibres and waveguides by high resolution microscopy
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Eleventh Conference on Sensors and their Applications 2001
    Conference Publication: Sensors and their Applications XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Sensors and their Applications
    Page numbers: 13-18
    Publisher: IOP Publishing
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  • Demonstration of improved central fringe identification in an all-fibre low coherence interferometer with a triple wavelength synthesised source
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Eleventh Conference on Sensors and their Applications 2001
    Conference Publication: Sensors and their Applications XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Sensors and their Applications
    Page numbers: 141-146
    Publisher: IOP Publishing
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  • Investigating Refractive Index of Photonic Band Gap Fibres using DIC Microscopy
    Year: 2001
    Event name: OECC/IOCC 2001 CONFERENCE
    Conference Publication: OECC/IOOC 2001 Conference
    Volume: I
    Page numbers: 156,157
    Publisher: ACOFT 2001(Sydney)
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  • On the physical origin of strain sensitivity in optical fibre rare earth fluorescence sensors
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Eleventh Conference on Sensors and their Applications 2001
    Conference Publication: Sensors and their Applications XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Sensors and their Applications
    Page numbers: 231-236
    Publisher: IOP Publishing
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