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Improved Numerical Estimation Method for Surface Wave Attenuation on Metasurfaces (2024)
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Suzuki, K., Dang, P. T., Homma, H., Fathnan, A. A., Phang, S., & Wakatsuchi, H. (2024). Improved Numerical Estimation Method for Surface Wave Attenuation on Metasurfaces. Advanced Theory and Simulations, https://doi.org/10.1002/adts.202301173

Comprehensive numerical tools to investigate and analyze the surface wave attenuation on a metasurface waveguide that consists of periodic patches deposited on a dielectric substrate are presented. The surface wave attenuation is evaluated in both wa... Read More about Improved Numerical Estimation Method for Surface Wave Attenuation on Metasurfaces.

Short review and prospective: chalcogenide glass mid-infrared fibre lasers (2024)
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Seddon, A. B., Farries, M., Nunes, J. J., Xiao, B., Furniss, D., Barney, E., …Sujecki, S. (2024). Short review and prospective: chalcogenide glass mid-infrared fibre lasers. European Physical Journal Plus, 139(2), Article 142. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04841-1

Rare-earth ion doped, silica glass, optical fibre amplifiers have transformed the world by enabling high speed communications and the Internet. Fibre lasers, based on rare-earth ion doped silica glass optical fibres, achieve high optical powers and a... Read More about Short review and prospective: chalcogenide glass mid-infrared fibre lasers.

Simulation of a Sensitive Mid-infrared (MIR) D-Shaped Optical Fiber Water Pollutant Sensor (2023)
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Younis, B. M., Dawood, N. Y. M., Abd-Elkader, A. E., Furniss, D., Farries, M., Phang, S., …Obayya, S. S. A. (2023). Simulation of a Sensitive Mid-infrared (MIR) D-Shaped Optical Fiber Water Pollutant Sensor. Plasmonics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-023-02110-6

In this work, an efficient optical sensor is proposed for the sensitive detection of various pollutants in water. The suggested optical sensor is based on an indium fluoride (InF3) glass fabricated as a D-shaped optical fiber. The polished surface of... Read More about Simulation of a Sensitive Mid-infrared (MIR) D-Shaped Optical Fiber Water Pollutant Sensor.

Mid-infrared water pollutant sensor based on SPR-PCF (2023)
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Gamal, Y., Younis, B. M., Abd-Elkader, A. E., Furniss, D., Farries, M., Phang, S., …Obayya, S. S. A. (2023). Mid-infrared water pollutant sensor based on SPR-PCF. Optical and Quantum Electronics, 55(11), Article 966. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-023-05207-8

In this paper, a highly sensitive water pollutant optical sensor is proposed and analyzed. The suggested sensor consists of photonic crystal fiber with a core surrounded by four elliptical holes infiltrated with the studied analyte (pure/polluted wat... Read More about Mid-infrared water pollutant sensor based on SPR-PCF.

SARIS: Scattering Aware Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Model and Optimization for Complex Propagation Channels (2023)
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Mursia, P., Phang, S., Sciancalepore, V., Gradoni, G., & Di Renzo, M. (2023). SARIS: Scattering Aware Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Model and Optimization for Complex Propagation Channels. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 12(11), 1921-1925. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2023.3299304

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology that changes how wireless networks are perceived, therefore its potential benefits and applications are currently under intense research and investigation. In this letter, we focu... Read More about SARIS: Scattering Aware Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Model and Optimization for Complex Propagation Channels.

Photonic reservoir computing enabled by stimulated Brillouin scattering (2023)
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Phang, S. (2023). Photonic reservoir computing enabled by stimulated Brillouin scattering. Optics Express, 31(13), 22061-22074. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.489057

Artificial intelligence (AI) drives the creation of future technologies that disrupt the way humans live and work, creating new solutions that change the way we approach tasks and activities, but it requires a lot of data processing, large amounts of... Read More about Photonic reservoir computing enabled by stimulated Brillouin scattering.

Optical strain sensor with dual fibre Bragg grating topology (2023)
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Palmowski, J., Barczak, K., Kubicka, N., Gołek, F., Benson, L., Maciak, E., …Bereś-Pawlik, E. (2023). Optical strain sensor with dual fibre Bragg grating topology. Optical and Quantum Electronics, 55(5), Article 453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-023-04746-4

The paper presents the design, operation, and proof of principle realisation and validation of a relatively cheap fibre optic strain sensor based on two fibre Bragg grating (FBG) elements with different spectral responses. Its performance is compared... Read More about Optical strain sensor with dual fibre Bragg grating topology.

Smart Surface Radio Environments (2022)
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Gradoni, G., Di Renzo, M., Diaz-Rubio, A., Tretyakov, S., Caloz, C., Peng, Z., …Phang, S. (2022). Smart Surface Radio Environments. Reviews of Electromagnetics, 1, 1-42. https://doi.org/10.53792/roe/2022.1/21012

This Roadmap takes the reader on a journey through the research in electromagnetic wave propagation control via reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Metasurface modelling and design methods are reviewed along with physical realisation techniques. Sev... Read More about Smart Surface Radio Environments.

Vibrational Biospectroscopy: An Alternative Approach to Endometrial Cancer Diagnosis and Screening (2022)
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Schiemer, R., Furniss, D., Phang, S., Seddon, A. B., Atiomo, W., & Gajjar, K. B. (2022). Vibrational Biospectroscopy: An Alternative Approach to Endometrial Cancer Diagnosis and Screening. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(9), Article 4859. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23094859

Endometrial cancer (EC) is the sixth most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of death among women worldwide. Early detection and treatment are associated with a favourable prognosis and reduction in mortality. Unlike other common cancers, how... Read More about Vibrational Biospectroscopy: An Alternative Approach to Endometrial Cancer Diagnosis and Screening.

Non-spectroscopic sensing enabled by an electro-optical reservoir computer (2022)
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Anufriev, G., Furniss, D., Farries, M., & Phang, S. (2022). Non-spectroscopic sensing enabled by an electro-optical reservoir computer. Optical Materials Express, 12(5), 1767-1783. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.449036

A fully bio-inspired apparatus to perform non-spectroscopic sensing to discriminate and determine the constituent concentrations of a chemical mixture is proposed. Here, fully bio-inspired means that it is comprised of a biomimetic sensor and a neuro... Read More about Non-spectroscopic sensing enabled by an electro-optical reservoir computer.

Mid-infrared spectral classification of endometrial cancer compared to benign controls in serum or plasma samples (2021)
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Mabwa, D., Gajjar, K., Furniss, D., Schiemer, R., Crane, R., Fallaize, C., …Phang, S. (2021). Mid-infrared spectral classification of endometrial cancer compared to benign controls in serum or plasma samples. Analyst, 146(18), 5631-5642. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1AN00833A

This study demonstrates a discrimination of endometrial cancer versus (non-cancerous) benign controls based on mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy of dried plasma or serum liquid samples. A detailed evaluation was performed of four discriminant methods (... Read More about Mid-infrared spectral classification of endometrial cancer compared to benign controls in serum or plasma samples.

Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber (2021)
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Nunes, J. J., Sojka, Ł., Crane, R. W., Furniss, D., Tang, Z. Q., Mabwa, D., …Sujecki, S. (2021). Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber. Optics Letters, 46(15), 3504-3507. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.430891

We report mid-infrared fiber lasing for the first time above 5 µm in a room temperature, Ce 3+ doped, chalcogenide glass, step index fiber using in-band pumping with a 4.15 µm quantum cascade laser. The lasing fiber is 64 mm long, with a calculated n... Read More about Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber.

Wireless power distributions in multi-cavity systems at high frequencies (2021)
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Adnan, F., Blakaj, V., Phang, S., Antonsen, T. M., Creagh, S. C., Gradoni, G., & Tanner, G. (2021). Wireless power distributions in multi-cavity systems at high frequencies. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 477(2245), Article 20200228. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0228

The next generations of wireless networks will work in frequency bands ranging from sub-6 GHz up to 100 GHz. Radio signal propagation differs here in several critical aspects from the behaviour in the microwave frequencies currently used. With wavele... Read More about Wireless power distributions in multi-cavity systems at high frequencies.

Pseudo?Waveform?Selective Metasurfaces and their Limited Performance (2020)
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Nakasha, T., Phang, S., & Wakatsuchi, H. (2021). Pseudo?Waveform?Selective Metasurfaces and their Limited Performance. Advanced Theory and Simulations, 4(1), Article 2000187. https://doi.org/10.1002/adts.202000187

Abstract In recent years, metasurfaces composed of lumped circuit components, including nonlinear Schottky diodes, have been reported to be capable of sensing particular electromagnetic waves even at the same frequency depending on their waveforms, o... Read More about Pseudo?Waveform?Selective Metasurfaces and their Limited Performance.

Efficient Statistical Model for Predicting Electromagnetic Wave Distribution in Coupled Enclosures (2020)
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Ma, S., Phang, S., Drikas, Z., Addissie, B., Hong, R., Blakaj, V., …Anlage, S. M. (2020). Efficient Statistical Model for Predicting Electromagnetic Wave Distribution in Coupled Enclosures. Physical Review Applied, 14(1), Article 014022. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.014022

The random coupling model (RCM) has been successfully applied to predicting the statistics of currents and voltages at ports in complex electromagnetic (EM) enclosures operating in the short-wavelength limit. Recent studies have extended the RCM to s... Read More about Efficient Statistical Model for Predicting Electromagnetic Wave Distribution in Coupled Enclosures.

Mid-infrared sources for biomedical applications based on chalcogenide glass fibres (2020)
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Seddon, A. B., Sujecki, S., Sojka, L., Furniss, D., Tang, Z., Mabwa, D., …Benson, T. M. (2020). Mid-infrared sources for biomedical applications based on chalcogenide glass fibres. Proceedings of SPIE, 11357, Article 1135710. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2568040

Many important molecules show strong characteristic vibrational transitions in the mid-infrared (MIR) part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This leads to applications in spectroscopy, chemical and bio-molecular sensing, security and industry, especia... Read More about Mid-infrared sources for biomedical applications based on chalcogenide glass fibres.

Near-Field MIMO Communication Links (2018)
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Phang, S., Ivrlac, M. T., Gradoni, G., Creagh, S. C., Tanner, G., & Nossek, J. A. (2018). Near-Field MIMO Communication Links. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 65(9), 3027-3036. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcsi.2018.2796305

© 2004-2012 IEEE. A procedure to achieve near-field multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication with equally strong channels is demonstrated in this paper. This has applications in near-field wireless communications, such as Chip-to-Chip (C2C... Read More about Near-Field MIMO Communication Links.

Design and characterization of a diamond-shaped monopole antenna (2017)
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Maricar, M. I., Bahar, A., Greedy, S., Smartt, C., Phang, S., Gradoni, G., …Thomas, D. W. P. (2017). Design and characterization of a diamond-shaped monopole antenna. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 59(10), 2695-2698. https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.30790

We report a new planar antenna design in the shape of a diamond. The performance of the antenna design is initially obtained through simulation, then fabricated, and its performance evaluated through experiment. Experimental characterization of the d... Read More about Design and characterization of a diamond-shaped monopole antenna.

Localized single frequency lasing states in a finite parity-time symmetric resonator chain (2016)
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Phang, S., Vukovic, A., Creagh, S. C., Sewell, P., Gradoni, G., & Benson, T. M. (2016). Localized single frequency lasing states in a finite parity-time symmetric resonator chain. Scientific Reports, 6, Article e20499. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20499

In this paper a practical case of a finite periodic Parity Time chain made of resonant dielectric cylinders is considered. The paper analyzes a more general case where PT symmetry is achieved by modulating both the real and imaginary part of the mate... Read More about Localized single frequency lasing states in a finite parity-time symmetric resonator chain.

Parity-time symmetric coupled microresonators with a dispersive gain/loss (2015)
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Phang, S., Vukovic, A., Creagh, S. C., Benson, T. M., Sewell, P. D., & Gradoni, G. (2015). Parity-time symmetric coupled microresonators with a dispersive gain/loss. Optics Express, 23(9), 11493-11507. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.23.011493

The paper reports on the coupling of Parity-Time (PT)-symmetric whispering gallery resonators with realistic material and gain/loss models. Response of the PT system is analyzed for the case of low and high material and gain dispersion, and also for... Read More about Parity-time symmetric coupled microresonators with a dispersive gain/loss.