Phone number
0121 204 3543
Email
j.a.r.williams@aston.ac.uk
Room number
N709
Profile
John Williams received his B.Sc in Physics in 1986 and PhD on the development, characterisation and optimisation of various new modelocked laser sources in 1990 from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
He has been working in the Photonics Research group, Aston University since 1992 and has been a Reader there since 2000.
He has authored and co-authored over 100 journal and conference papers in photonics related fields.
Dr Williams is a member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP), the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (MIEEE) and the Institute of Electrical Engineers (MIEE).
Teaching activity
Research interests
Current research interests include the design and fabrication of in-fibre Bragg Gratings and their application as sensors, for the control of short pulses and for the processing and control of sub-carrier multiplexed microwave signals.
Recent projects
- High Performance Passive and Active Fibre Bragg Grating Based Techniques for Microwave Photonic Systems (EPSRC)
- Bragg Grating Based Tunable Dispersion Compensator (Indigo Photonics)
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