Biography

Dr. Dominic F. Murphy is a Senior Research Scientist and Principal Investigator in the Optics Research Group.  He is Founder & Managing Director at Fusion Photonics Ltd.: www.fusionphotonics.com. With 14 years Research & Development experience across commercial, academic and commercially-focussed academic roles in Ireland, the UK and Australia, his commercial experience includes R&D Engineering positions at Sumicem Optoelectronics Ltd. and at the start-up company, BlazePhotonics Ltd. With a PhD in the area of optical fibre interferometry, Dominic's current research activities are primarily focussed on manipulating optical fibres to enable new commercially relevant functionalities. This work has been applied across a range of areas including communications, structural health and environmental monitoring, biological and chemical sensing, astrophotonics, medical diagnostics, fibre lasers and next generation computing. He has co-authored 5 patent applications and 36 journal, conference and invited publications.

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Recent Selected Publications

1. O'Mahoney, K. and Murphy, D.F., “A Stationary Waveguide Spectrum Analyser”, UK Patent Application GB1107227.9, 2011.

2. Birks, T.A., Mangan, B.J., Diez, A., Cruz, J.L., Leon-Saval, S.G., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Murphy, D.F., “Multicore optical fibres for astrophotonics”, CLEO Europe (Munich), (Invited), 2011.

3. Schartner, E.P., Murphy, D.F., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Monro, T.M., “A low-volume microstructured optical fiber hydrogen peroxide sensor”, SPIE Defense Security & Sensing Conf. (Orlando), 2011.

4. Wheeler, N.V., Grogan, M.D.W., Wang, Y.Y., Murphy, D.F., Birks, T.A., Benabid, F., “Large-core photonic microcells for coherent optics and laser metrology”, Photonics West (San Francisco), (Invited) 2011.

5. Birks, T.A., Diez, A., Cruz, J.L., Leon-Saval, S.G., Murphy, D.F., “Fibres are looking up: optical fibre transition structures in astrophotonics”, Frontiers in Optics (Rochester, New York), (Invited) 2010.

6. Murphy, D.F., Flavin, D.A., “Statically scanned single and tandem low-coherence interferometers”, Measurement Science & Technology OFS-20 stacks.iop.org/MST/21/094031,(Special Issue) 2010.

7. Murphy, D.F., Monro, T.M., “Micro-structured soft glass optical fibres for next generation chemical and biological sensing”, Night Vision & Photonics Technology (Adelaide, Australia), (Invited) 2010.

8. Boyd, K., Murphy, D.F., Munch, J. and Monro, T.M., “Elliptical CO2 laser beam tapering of hole-pressurised Bismuth microstructured optical fibres”, ACOFT (Melbourne, Australia), 2010.

9. Murphy, D.F., Healy, N., Hussey, C.D., O'Byrne, R., Sergeyev, S., “Optical devices and methods of manufacture of optical devices”, Irish Patent Application S2009/0787, 2009.

10. Healy, N, Murphy, D.F., Clohessy, A.M., Hussey C.D., “High extinction ratio low loss tightly bent PANDA fibre”, Electron. Lett.,45, (8), pp.397-398, 2009.

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Last updated: Friday, Dec 16, 2011