报告名称：“Advanced fibre grating devices and their sensing applications”　
报告人：Professor Lin Zhang
　  Photonics Research Group, Aston University, UK
报告时间：12月25日上午9:30
报告地点：瞬态楼三楼会议室
Abstract: This talk will give an overview of the research activities in the Photonics Research Group at Aston University with emphasis on the fabrication and sensing applications of advanced fibre grating devices created in normal and special fibres by UV- and femtosecond-laser inscription.  A ranged of novel grating sensors based on Bragg, long-period and tilted structures realised in D-shape, multi-mode and multi-core fibres will be discussed. The most recent developments in (i) femtosecond inscription for microfluidic/grating devices, (2) tilted grating based novel polarisation devices and (3) dual-peak long-period grating based DNA hybridisation sensors will be reviewed.　 

报告人简历：

Professor Lin Zhang
School of Engineering & Applied Science Aston University Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
Tel: (0121) 2043548　  Fax: (0121)2043682　  Email: L.zhang@aston.ac.uk

Professor Lin Zhang completed her Ph.D at Sussex University, UK, in 1990, and continued there as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on passive and active planar optical waveguide devices. In March 1994, she joined the Photonics Research Group (PRG) at Aston University, UK, and took a full Professorship in June 2005 in the School of Engineering and Applied Science of Aston University. 
Since joined the PRG, she has been extensively involved in a large number of research programmes, including five DTI-EPSRC LINK, seven EPSRC, two EU, two MoD and three US industry and defense funded research projects.
Her research interests are primarily in the field of advanced photonic devices, techniques and applications. She is well recognised by the international photonics R&D community for her leading role in researching and developing novel fibre grating devices and theirapplications in optical communications and signal processing, microwave photonics and smart sensing. Recently, her group research activities have expanded to a new interdisciplinary direction – biophotonics, innovating advanced optical biosensor devices by exploiting the integrated structures of gratings/microfluidics/nanoparticles.
Her research output so far includes -360 research papers published in international reputable journals and conferences and co-authorship to two special technical books - Fiber Optic Sensors published by CRC Press for the first edition in 2002 and the second edition in 2008, and Optical Effect of Ion Implantation published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 and translated to Japanese and published by  , Tokyo, in 2004. She is frequently invited to referee papers for several high-standard journals, including Optics Express, Optics Letters, IEE Electronics Letters, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Applied Optics, Optics Communications, Measurement Sciences & Technology, etc. andgiving invited papers to the international conferences and workshops. Since 2000, she has been serving as the programme committee member and chair for several international topic meetings and conferences in fibre Bragg grating and photonics areas.