Designing specialty optical fibres to shape and guide light
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Designing specialty optical fibres to shape and guide light
Wed, 17/12/2025 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Speaker:
Dr. Stephanos Yerolatsitis
Affiliation:
University of Bath
Synopsis:
Controlling light within optical fibres is central to the advancement of photonic technologies. In this talk, I will present recent developments in the design and post-processing of microstructured optical fibres, including hollow-core fibres, highlighting methods for tailoring their geometry to manipulate light propagation. These novel fibre structures offer enhanced performance (e.g. low loss guidance) and enable functionalities that are difficult or impossible to realise with conventional fibres. Applications range from high-power laser delivery and classical communications to biomedical sensing and next-generation LiDAR systems.
Biography:
Dr. Stephanos Yerolatsitis is a Lecturer in Photonics at the University of Bath. He received his PhD from the same institution and has held research positions at the University of Central Florida, and the Cyprus University of Technology. He was also awarded a prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowship. His work focuses on novel optical fibre design and post-processing techniques to enable photonic devices with advanced functionalities. He is particularly interested in understanding and controlling light behaviour in complex fibre geometries.