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Professor Ian Bennion

Electronic Engineering Subject Group Convener

Head of Photonics Research Group

Phone number
0121 204 3489


Email
i.bennion@aston.ac.uk


Room number
N311

Profile
Ian Bennion is Professor of Optoelectronics in the Department of Electronic Engineering & Applied Physics at the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK.

Previously, he spent 16 years at Plessey Research Caswell Ltd, latterly GEC-Marconi Materials Technology Ltd, where he headed a department of 18 scientists and engineers carrying out research into optoelectronic devices and their applications in communications, signal processing, optical switching and optical interconnects. He has been extensively involved in EU research programmes.

He is a Fellow of the IEE and of the Institute of Physics (UK), and a Member of the Optical Society of America and of the IEEE.

Teaching activity

  • EE2TCS: Telecommunication Systems

Research interests
Guided-wave optical and optoelectronic devices; fibre gratings; fibre optic sensors; biophotonics; nonlinear optical devices; ultrafast optoelectronics; optical communications and signal processing systems.

Research projects

  • The spectral characterisation/fabrication of symmetric and asymmetric FBG/LPG devices in various types of single mode optical fibre
  • Fabrication and Characterisation of coated/patterned FBG/LPG devices
  • Optical Fibre Sensors for Transverse Strain and Bend Measurement