Dr Ashleigh Barron
Ashleigh graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Physics from Heriot-Watt University in 2009, and an MSc degree in Photonics & Optoelectronic Devices from Heriot-Watt and St Andrews Universities in 2010. She is currently studying towards a PhD on using lensed multicore fibres for optical trapping applications. She has successfully demonstrated interferometric optical trapping of both polystyrene microspheres and Escherichia coli bacterial cells using a four core MCF lensed with a conventional fusion splicer. She is currently working towards creating a fully integrated “turn-key” device suitable for use in non-optics based laboratories. Her work has been featured twice as “image of the week” for Optics InfoBase.
Email: ab461@hw.ac.uk
Tel no: +44-131-451-3046
Room no: DB 1.04
1. A. L. Barron, and A. K. Kar, “Multicore fibres - Applications in optical trapping” International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics, ICOL 2014, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India (2014).
2. A. L. Barron, A. K. Kar, G. Brown, T. J. Aspray, A. J. Waddie, M. R. Taghizadeh, and H. T. Bookey, “Optical trapping using a lensed multicore fiber,” Workshop on specialty optical fiber and their applications (WSOF), Sigtuna, Sweden (2013). Paper T1-3.
3. A. L. Barron, A. K. Kar, A. J. Waddie, M. R. Taghizadeh, and H. T. Bookey, “Two dimensional trapping using four core interference from a lensed multicore fiber,” CLEO-PR&OECC/PS 2013, Kyoto, Japan (2013). Paper ThL1-4.
4. A. L. Barron, A. K. Kar, T. J. Aspray, A. J. Waddie, M. R. Taghizadeh, and H. T. Bookey, “Two dimensional interferometric optical trapping of multiple particles and Escherichia coli using a lensed multicore fiber,” Opt. Express 21, 13199-13207 (2013).
5. A. L. Barron, G. Brown, A. K. Kar, and H. T. Bookey, “Lensed multicore fiber for interferometric optical trapping,” Photonics 2012, Chennai, India (2012). Paper T2A.5.
6. A. L. Barron, A. K. Kar and H. T. Bookey, “Multi-beam interference from lensed multicore fibre probes,” Fibre Optic and Waveguides symposia, Photon 12, Durham University, UK (2012).
7. A. L. Barron, A. K. Kar, and H. T. Bookey, “Dual-beam interference from a lensed multicore fiber and its applications to optical trapping.” Opt. Express 20, 23156-23161 (2012).
8. A. L. Barron, A. K. Kar and H. T. Bookey, “Lensed Multi-core Fiber for Interferometric Optical Tweezing Applications,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, California ( 2012). Paper CTh1G.7.
9. H. Bookey, A. Barron, A. Kar, R. Stepien, D. Pysz, and R. Buczynski, “Multicore fibre probes for nonlinear optical measurements,” European Conference on Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy (ECONOS), University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands (2011). Paper O30.
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