During my PhD I was focused developing multi-core fibres for medical imaging and sensing, telecommunications and astrophotonic applications. I am interested in optical fibre modes and often spatially controlling them in fibre cross-sections. 

Much of my work was part of a large multidisciplinary project that will deliver a transformative device for critical lung care, called Proteus. The performance of large multi-core fibres for imaging in this application are limited by cross-talk of modes will cause image information to blurr. This is typically overcome with expensive refractive index contrasting material. Through simulation (COMSOL and Matlab), fabrication and testing resolution using fluorescent targets, I have helped developed fibres for the Proteus project that use cheaper telecommunications material. These compare favorably with commercially available imaging fibres.

Much easier to show how it is done!