Rajan, Ginu

Overview

Dr. Rajan is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong and is also a visiting fellow at UNSW, Sydney. He obtained a PhD degree in Engineering from Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland in 2009. He was a Project Manager at the Photonics Research Centre of DIT during 2009-2012 and a VC Research Fellow at UNSW during 2012-2015. He has published over 135 articles in journals, conferences and as book chapters and two patents are also filed. He is also the editor of the books “Optical Fiber Sensors:- Advanced Techniques and Applications” and "Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures using Fiber Optic Methods", both published by CRC Press. He serves as a technical program committee chair and member of conferences in the area of optical fiber sensors and smart composite materials, editorial board member and reviewer of several journals, and reviewer for funding applications of the Portugal Science Foundation and Australian Research Council. His research and teaching interests includes optical fibre sensing and its applications in a number of engineering areas.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2015	Optical fiber sensors: Advanced techniques and applications

Research Areas

Research Overview

My research interests and focus are on the below areas;

Optical fibre sensors
Engineering applications of optical fibre sensors
Smart composites and structures
Biomedical and biomaterials sensing
Structural health monitoring using fibre optic methods

Available as Research Supervisor

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	Automated fibre placement based composite structures: Review on the defects, impacts and inspections techniques Published In Composite Structures Volume 224 Pages 110987-1 - 110987-14 ISSN 0263-8223 Altmetric
2019	Clinical utility of pressure feedback to socket design and fabrication Published In Prosthetics and Orthotics International Altmetric
2019	Influence of Surface Treatment on the Interfacial and Mechanical Properties of Short S-Glass Fiber-Reinforced Dental Composites Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Volume 11 Pages 32328 - 32338 ISSN 1944-8244 Altmetric
2019	Online Monitoring and Prediction of Thermo-Mechanics of AFP Based Thermoplastic Composites Published In Sensors Volume 19 Pages 1310-1 - 1310-18 ISSN 1424-8239 Altmetric
2019	Polymerisation Shrinkage Profiling of Dental Composites using Optical Fibre Sensing and their Correlation with Degree of Conversion and Curing Rate Published In Scientific Reports Volume 9 Pages 3162 - 3162 ISSN 2045-2322 Altmetric
2019	Selective Atomic-Level Etching on Short S-Glass Fibres to Control Interfacial Properties for Restorative Dental Composites Published In Scientific Reports Volume 9 Pages 3851-1 - 3851-10 ISSN 2045-2322 Altmetric
2019	Simultaneous measurement of normal and shear stress using fiber bragg grating sensors in prosthetic applications Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 19 Pages 7383 - 7390 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2019	The Study of the Directional Sensitivity of Fiber Bragg Gratings for Acoustic Emission Measurements Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 19 Pages 6771 - 6777 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2018	Characterization of process-induced defects in automated fiber placement manufacturing of composites using fiber Bragg grating sensors Published In Structural Health Monitoring: an international journal Volume 17 Pages 108 - 117 ISSN 1475-9217 Altmetric
2018	Fabrication and Characterisation of a Magnetized Metal-encapsulated FBG sensor for Structural Health Monitoring Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 18 Pages 8739 - 8746 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2018	Laser self-mixing fiber Bragg grating sensor for acoustic emission measurement Published In Sensors Volume 18 Pages 1956-1 - 1956-12 ISSN 1424-8239 Altmetric
2017	Ballast breakage analysis using FBG acoustic emission measurement system Published In Geotechnical and Geological Engineering: an international journal Volume 35 Pages 1239 - 1247 ISSN 0960-3182 Altmetric
2017	Etched Polymer Fibre Bragg Gratings and Their Biomedical Sensing Applications Published In Sensors Volume 17 Pages 2336-1 - 2336-13 ISSN 1424-8239 Altmetric
2017	In-situ simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature in automated fiber placement (AFP) using optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors Published In Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science Volume 3 Pages 52 - 61 Altmetric
2016	Etching process related changes and effects on solid-core single-mode polymer optical fiber grating Published In IEEE Photonics Journal Volume 8 Pages 2500109-1 - 2500109-10 ISSN 1943-0655 Altmetric
2016	Evaluation of the physical properties of dental resin composites using optical fiber sensing technology Published In Dental Materials Volume 32 Pages 1113 - 1123 ISSN 0109-5641 Altmetric
2016	High intrinsic sensitivity etched polymer fiber Bragg grating pair for simultaneous strain and temperature measurements Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 16 Pages 2453 - 2459 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2016	In situ process monitoring for automated fibre placement using fibre Bragg grating sensors Published In Structural Health Monitoring: an international journal Volume 15 Pages 706 - 714 ISSN 1475-9217 Altmetric
2016	Thermal sensitivity and relaxation of carbon fibre-foam sandwich composites with fibre optic sensors Published In Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials Volume 18 Pages 652 - 664 ISSN 1099-6362 Altmetric
2015	Experimental study and analysis of hydrostatic pressure sensitivity of polymer fibre bragg gratings Published In Journal of Lightwave Technology ISSN 0733-8724 Altmetric
2015	Intrinsic high-sensitivity sensors based on etched single-mode polymer optical fibres Published In IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Volume 27 Pages 604 - 607 ISSN 1041-1135 Altmetric
2015	Simple method for measuring the linewidth enhancement factor of semiconductor lasers Published In Applied Optics Volume 54 Pages 10295 - 10298 ISSN 1559-128X Altmetric
2014	A miniaturized flexible surface attachable interrogator for hybrid optical fibre sensing Published In Microwave and Optical Technology Letters Volume 56 Pages 1167 - 1174 ISSN 0895-2477 Altmetric
2014	A photonic crystal fibre based polarimetric sensor for cure monitoring of magnetorhelogical smart composite material Published In Electronics Letters Volume 50 Pages 1083 - 1084 ISSN 0013-5194 Altmetric
2014	Experimental study and analysis of a polymer fibre bragg grating embedded in a composite material Published In Journal of Lightwave Technology Volume 32 Pages 1726 - 1733 ISSN 0733-8724
2014	Hybrid fibre optic sensor system for measuring the strain, temperature and thermal strain of composite materials Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 14 Pages 2571 - 2578 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2014	Inscription of multiple bragg gratings in a single-mode polymer optical fibre using phase mask and its analysis Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 14 Pages 2384 - 2388 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2014	Microstructured fiber sealed-void interferometric humidity sensor Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 14 Pages 1154 - 1159 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2014	The investigation of the effect of vibration amplitude on vibration measurements of polarimetric fibre sensors embedded in composite beams Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 23 Pages 045037-1 - 045037-11 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2013	A fast response intrinsic humidity sensor based on an etched singlemode polymer fiber Bragg grating Published In Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Volume 203 Pages 107 - 111 ISSN 0924-4247
2013	High sensitivity force and pressure measurements using etched singlemode polymer fiber bragg gratings Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 13 Pages 1794 - 1800 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2013	Measurement of thermal elongation induced strain of a composite material using a polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber sensor Published In Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Volume 190 Pages 44 - 51 ISSN 0924-4247 Altmetric
2013	Polymer micro-fibre bragg grating Published In Optics Letters Volume 38 Pages 3359 - 3362 ISSN 0146-9592 Altmetric
2012	A photonic crystal fiber and fiber Bragg grating-based hybrid fiber-optic sensor system Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 12 Pages 39 - 43 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2012	Analysis of vibration measurements in a composite material using an embedded PM-PCF polarimetric sensor and an FBG sensor Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 12 Pages 1365 - 1371 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2012	Composite materials with embedded photonic crystal fiber interferometric sensors Published In Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Volume 182 Pages 57 - 67 ISSN 0924-4247 Altmetric
2012	Influence of lamination process on optical fiber sensors embedded in composite material Published In Measurement Volume 45 Pages 2275 - 2280 ISSN 0263-2241 Altmetric
2012	Photonic crystal fiber sensors for minimally invasive surgical devices Published In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Volume 59 Pages 332 - 338 ISSN 0018-9294 Altmetric
2011	A liquid crystal coated tapered photonic crystal fiber interferometer Published In Journal of Optics Volume 13 Pages 1 - 7 ISSN 2040-8978 Altmetric
2011	Improving the sensitivity of a humidity sensor based on fiber bend coated with a hygroscopic coating Published In Optics and Laser Technology Volume 43 Pages 1301 - 1305 ISSN 0030-3992 Altmetric
2011	Influence of angular orientation of the embedded highly birefringent fiber on pmd changes under axial stress Published In Acta Physica Polonica, Series A: General Physics, Physics of Condensed Matter, Optics and Quantum Electrodynamics Volume 120 Pages 575 - 578 ISSN 0587-4246
2011	Investigation and experimental measurement of scissor blade cutting forces using fiber Bragg grating sensors Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 20 Pages 1 - 9 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2011	Photonic crystal fiber interferometer for dew detection Published In Journal of Lightwave Technology Volume 30 Pages 1150 - 1155 ISSN 0733-8724 Altmetric
2011	The influence of thermal expansion of a composite material on embedded polarimetric sensors Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 20 Pages 1 - 7 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2010	A fiber Bragg grating-based all-fiber sensing system for telerobotic cutting applications Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 10 Pages 1913 - 1920 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2010	A hybrid highly birefringent fiber optic sensing system for simultaneous strain and temperature measurement Published In Photonics Letters of Poland Volume 2 Pages 140 - 142 Altmetric
2010	A voltage sensor based on a singlemode-multimode-singlemode fiber structure Published In Microwave and Optical Technology Letters Volume 52 Pages 1887 - 1890 ISSN 0895-2477 Altmetric
2010	Analysis of temperature dependence for a ratiometric wavelength measurement system using SMS fiber structure based edge filters Published In Optics Communications Volume 283 Pages 1291 - 1295 ISSN 0030-4018 Altmetric
2010	Experimental analysis and demonstration of a low cost fibre optic temperature sensor system for engineering applications Published In Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Volume 163 Pages 88 - 95 ISSN 0924-4247 Altmetric
2010	Humidity sensor based on photonic crystal fibre interferometer Published In Electronics Letters Volume 46 Pages 1341 - 1343 ISSN 0013-5194 Altmetric
2010	Optimum design for maximum wavelength resolution for an edge filter-based ratiometric system Published In Optics and Laser Technology Volume 42 Pages 1032 - 1037 ISSN 0030-3992 Altmetric
2010	Polarization dependence of an edge filter based on singlemode-multimode-singlemode fibre Published In Optics and Laser Technology Volume 42 Pages 1044 - 1048 ISSN 0030-3992 Altmetric
2010	Study of the effect of source signal bandwidth on ratiometric wavelength measurement Published In Applied Optics Volume 49 Pages 5626 - 5631 ISSN 1559-128X Altmetric

Chapter

Year	Title
2016	High sensitivity polymer fibre bragg grating sensors and devices Published In Photonic Materials for Sensing, Biosensing and Display Devices Publisher Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Pages 289 - 314 ISBN 9783319249902 Altmetric
2015	Introduction to optical fiber sensors Published In Optical fiber sensors: Advanced techniques and applications Publisher United States: CRC Press Pages 1 - 12 ISBN 9781482228250
2015	Optical Fiber Sensors for smart composite materials structures Published In Optical Fiber Sensors: Advanced Techniques and Applications Publisher United States: CRC Press Pages 491 - 520 ISBN 9781482228250
2015	Optical fiber humidity sensors Published In Optical Fiber Sensors: Advanced Techniques and Applications Publisher United States: CRC Press Pages 413 - 454 ISBN 9781482228250
2015	Polymer micro and microstructured fibre bragg gratings: Recent advancements and applications Published In Optofliudics, sensors and actuators in microstructured optical fibers Publisher United States: Elsevier Science Pages 207 - 227 ISBN 9781782423294
2013	Optical fiber sensors and interrogation systems for interaction force measurements in minimally invasive surgical devices Published In Smart sensor for industrial applications Publisher United States: CRC Press Pages 31 - 46 ISBN 9781466568105
2009	Analysis of strain transfer to FBG’s for sensorized telerobotic end-effector applications Published In Advances in robotics research: Theory, implementation, application Publisher Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media Pages 64 - 76 ISBN 9783642012136 Altmetric

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2017	Distributed strain measurement using fibre optics in a high performance composite hydrofoil Published In 21st International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-21) Pages 1 - 11
2017	Fibre Bragg Grating sensor based crack activity monitoring for mining applications Published In 2nd International Conference of Fibre-Optic and Photonic Sensors for Industrial and Safety Applications (OFSIS) Pages 66 - 66
2017	High Frequency Fibre Bragg Grating Interrogator for Monitoring Rock Cracking Events for Mining Applications Published In 2nd International Conference of Fibre-Optic and Photonic Sensors for Industrial and Safety Applications (OFSIS) Pages 45 - 51 Altmetric
2017	Machine learning based process monitoring and characterisation of automated composites Published In International SAMPE Technical Conference Pages 398 - 410
2017	The influence of consolidation force on the performance of AFP manufactured laminates Published In 21st International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-21) Pages 1 - 11
2016	Etched polymer fibre Bragg gratings Published In Photonics and Fiber Technology Congress (ACOFT, BGPP, NP) Pages 1 - 2 Altmetric
2016	Fibre Bragg grating sensing technology for the evaluation of physical properties of dental resin composites Published In Photonics and Fiber Technology Congress (ACOFT, BGPP, NP) Pages 1 - 2 Altmetric
2016	Fibre optic acoustic emission measurement technique for crack activity monitoring in civil engineering applications Published In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2016	Fibre optic acoustic emission sensor system for hydrogen induced cold crack monitoring in welding applications Published In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Pages 489 - 494 Altmetric
2016	High-sensitivity polymer fibre Bragg grating sensor for biomedical applications Published In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Pages 78 - 82 Altmetric
2016	Identification of defect in the automated tape placement process using fiber Bragg grating sensors Published In ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials
2016	Optical fiber Bragg grating sensors for process monitoring in advanced composites Published In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Pages 222 - 226 Altmetric
2015	Polymer fiber Bragg grating force sensors for minimally invasive surgical devices Published In OFS2013 23rd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors 2 Pages 96551E-1 - 96551E-4 Altmetric
2014	Carbon fibre-foam sandwich composite laminate embedded with fiber Bragg grating sensors Published In 23rd International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors Pages 91579X-1 - 91579X-4 Altmetric
2014	Hydrostatic pressure sensitivity of standard polymer fibre bragg gratings and etched polymer fibre bragg gratings Published In 23rd International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors Pages 91573G-1 - 91573G-4 Altmetric
2014	Performance characterization of sandwich composites embedded with fibre Bragg grating Published In 8th Australasian Conference on Applied Mechanics Pages 904 - 911
2014	Polymer fibre Bragg grating sensors: Recent advancements and applications Published In 19th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the 39th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) Pages 797 - 799
2013	Fabrication and characterization of a polymer micro-fiber bragg grating Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Pages 892432-1 - 892432-4 Altmetric
2013	Fabrication and characterization of bragg gratings in polymer optical fibers using 248 nm irradiation Published In Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2013 Pages 138 - 146 Altmetric
2013	Investigation of light propagation in microstructured polymer optical fibers infiltrated with liquid crystals and its temperature dependence Published In Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Plastical Optical Fibers, POF 2013 Pages 130 - 134
2012	A demodulation scheme for a hybrid fiber sensor system for composite materials Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Pages 843929-1 - 843929-10 Altmetric
2012	Comparison of vibration measurements in composite materials using different types of polarimetric sensors Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Pages 842178-1 - 842178-4 Altmetric
2012	Control of light propagation in optical fibers using liquid crystals for applications in optical communications and sensing Published In ICP 2012 - 3rd International Conference on Photonics 2012, Proceedings Pages 331 - 335 Altmetric
2012	Etched singlemode polymer fiber Bragg gratings for high sensitivity tensile force measurements Published In Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2012 Pages 1 - 3 Altmetric
2012	Etching and iIts effects on gratings inscribed in singlemode polymer optical fibre Published In ACOFT 2012,
2012	Photonic crystal fiber strain sensors for laparoscopic surgical devices Published In Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2012 Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2012	Temperature insensitive miniature photonic crystal fiber interferometric (PCFI) strain sensors Published In 2012 International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS 2012 Pages 1 - 3
2011	Agarose coated single mode fiber bend for monitoring humidity Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Altmetric
2011	Detection of thermal expansion of carbon and glass reinforced fibre composite materials using polarimetric and fibre Bragg grating sensors Published In IconTOP
2011	Influence of the lamination process on the strain sensitivity of the fiber sensors embedded in composite materials Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Altmetric
2011	Miniature temperature insensitive fiber optic sensors for minimally invasive surgical devices Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Pages 77536Z-1 - 77536Z-4 Altmetric
2011	Performance analysis of composite materials embedded with optical fibre sensors Published In Sensors, 2011 IEEE Pages 351 - 354 Altmetric
2010	Composite materials with embedded optical fibre sensors for in-situ structural health monitoring Published In WICSM
2010	Design of a surface attachable hybrid fiber sensor packaged in a polyimide film for engineering applications Published In Fourth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors Altmetric

Editor Of

Book
- Optical fiber sensors: Advanced techniques and applications. United States. 2015

Investigator On

Year	Title
2016 - 2019	Flowable composite system with short S-glass fibre and hallosite nanotubes Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Other Research Activities

CASS Foundation Travel Grant Lead CI 2016
UIC Grant:- UOW-DIT Joint Research Program on Optical Fibre Sensing and Their applications Lead CI 2016

Impact Story

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Fibre optic sensors for biomedical applications

Smart composite structures

Fibre optic dental instrumentation

Fibre optic structural health monitoring

Students Graduated under my supervision

1. Kishore Bhowmik, PhD 2015 (UNSW)

2. Manjusha Ramakrishnan, PhD 2016 (DIT Ireland)

3. Ebrahim Orohieme, PhD 2017 (UNSW)

3. Fei Xia, MPhil 2018 (UOW)

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Acoustic Emission Measurement based on specialty FBG sensors and their application in welding for crack monitoring	Jinachandran, Sagar

Reviewer Of

Applied Optics (Journal)
Chinese Optics Letters (Journal)
Composites Part B: Engineering (Journal)
Electronics Letters (Journal)
IEEE Access (Journal)
IEEE Photonics Journal (Journal)
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Journal)
IEEE Sensors Journal (Journal)
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Journal)
Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (Journal)
Journal of Lightwave Technology (Journal)
Journal of Optics (Journal)
Measurement (Journal)
Measurement Science and Technology (Journal)
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Journal)
Optical Fiber Technology (Journal)
Optics Communications (Journal)
Optics Express (Journal)
Optics Letters (Journal)
Optics and Lasers in Engineering (Journal)
Optik (Journal)
Review of Scientific Instruments (Journal)
Scientific Reports (Journal)
Sensors (Journal)
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical (Journal)
Smart Materials and Structures (Journal)
Structural Health Monitoring: an international journal (Journal)

Professional Service Activities

CAMS2018, The 6th conference of the combined Australian Materials Societies, Symposium Co-Chair, Photonics, Sensors and Optoelectronics 2018 -
Polish Science Foundation International Grant Assessor 2017 -
The 9th Australasian Conference on Applied Mechanics Theme Leader, Structural Health Monitoring 2017 -
15th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices Technical Committee Co-Chair 2015 -
Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland Assessor- President Fellowships 2015 -
Portugal Science Foundation International Grant Assessor 2013 -
Sensors (Journal) Editorial Board Member 2019 - 2021

Keywords

applied-science, photonic-engineering, optical-fibre-sensing, structural-health-monitoring, smart-structures-and-composites, optical-fibre-devices, biomechatronic-applications

Full Name

Dr. Ginu Rajan

Mailing Address

School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

University of Wollongong

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-6848 (pending confirmation)

Scopus Id

14037956800

Top Publications

Year	Title
2015	Optical fiber sensors: Advanced techniques and applications

Research Areas

Research Overview

My research interests and focus are on the below areas;

Optical fibre sensors
Engineering applications of optical fibre sensors
Smart composites and structures
Biomedical and biomaterials sensing
Structural health monitoring using fibre optic methods

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	Automated fibre placement based composite structures: Review on the defects, impacts and inspections techniques Published In Composite Structures Volume 224 Pages 110987-1 - 110987-14 ISSN 0263-8223 Altmetric
2019	Clinical utility of pressure feedback to socket design and fabrication Published In Prosthetics and Orthotics International Altmetric
2019	Influence of Surface Treatment on the Interfacial and Mechanical Properties of Short S-Glass Fiber-Reinforced Dental Composites Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Volume 11 Pages 32328 - 32338 ISSN 1944-8244 Altmetric
2019	Online Monitoring and Prediction of Thermo-Mechanics of AFP Based Thermoplastic Composites Published In Sensors Volume 19 Pages 1310-1 - 1310-18 ISSN 1424-8239 Altmetric
2019	Polymerisation Shrinkage Profiling of Dental Composites using Optical Fibre Sensing and their Correlation with Degree of Conversion and Curing Rate Published In Scientific Reports Volume 9 Pages 3162 - 3162 ISSN 2045-2322 Altmetric
2019	Selective Atomic-Level Etching on Short S-Glass Fibres to Control Interfacial Properties for Restorative Dental Composites Published In Scientific Reports Volume 9 Pages 3851-1 - 3851-10 ISSN 2045-2322 Altmetric
2019	Simultaneous measurement of normal and shear stress using fiber bragg grating sensors in prosthetic applications Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 19 Pages 7383 - 7390 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2019	The Study of the Directional Sensitivity of Fiber Bragg Gratings for Acoustic Emission Measurements Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 19 Pages 6771 - 6777 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2018	Characterization of process-induced defects in automated fiber placement manufacturing of composites using fiber Bragg grating sensors Published In Structural Health Monitoring: an international journal Volume 17 Pages 108 - 117 ISSN 1475-9217 Altmetric
2018	Fabrication and Characterisation of a Magnetized Metal-encapsulated FBG sensor for Structural Health Monitoring Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 18 Pages 8739 - 8746 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2018	Laser self-mixing fiber Bragg grating sensor for acoustic emission measurement Published In Sensors Volume 18 Pages 1956-1 - 1956-12 ISSN 1424-8239 Altmetric
2017	Ballast breakage analysis using FBG acoustic emission measurement system Published In Geotechnical and Geological Engineering: an international journal Volume 35 Pages 1239 - 1247 ISSN 0960-3182 Altmetric
2017	Etched Polymer Fibre Bragg Gratings and Their Biomedical Sensing Applications Published In Sensors Volume 17 Pages 2336-1 - 2336-13 ISSN 1424-8239 Altmetric
2017	In-situ simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature in automated fiber placement (AFP) using optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors Published In Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science Volume 3 Pages 52 - 61 Altmetric
2016	Etching process related changes and effects on solid-core single-mode polymer optical fiber grating Published In IEEE Photonics Journal Volume 8 Pages 2500109-1 - 2500109-10 ISSN 1943-0655 Altmetric
2016	Evaluation of the physical properties of dental resin composites using optical fiber sensing technology Published In Dental Materials Volume 32 Pages 1113 - 1123 ISSN 0109-5641 Altmetric
2016	High intrinsic sensitivity etched polymer fiber Bragg grating pair for simultaneous strain and temperature measurements Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 16 Pages 2453 - 2459 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2016	In situ process monitoring for automated fibre placement using fibre Bragg grating sensors Published In Structural Health Monitoring: an international journal Volume 15 Pages 706 - 714 ISSN 1475-9217 Altmetric
2016	Thermal sensitivity and relaxation of carbon fibre-foam sandwich composites with fibre optic sensors Published In Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials Volume 18 Pages 652 - 664 ISSN 1099-6362 Altmetric
2015	Experimental study and analysis of hydrostatic pressure sensitivity of polymer fibre bragg gratings Published In Journal of Lightwave Technology ISSN 0733-8724 Altmetric
2015	Intrinsic high-sensitivity sensors based on etched single-mode polymer optical fibres Published In IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Volume 27 Pages 604 - 607 ISSN 1041-1135 Altmetric
2015	Simple method for measuring the linewidth enhancement factor of semiconductor lasers Published In Applied Optics Volume 54 Pages 10295 - 10298 ISSN 1559-128X Altmetric
2014	A miniaturized flexible surface attachable interrogator for hybrid optical fibre sensing Published In Microwave and Optical Technology Letters Volume 56 Pages 1167 - 1174 ISSN 0895-2477 Altmetric
2014	A photonic crystal fibre based polarimetric sensor for cure monitoring of magnetorhelogical smart composite material Published In Electronics Letters Volume 50 Pages 1083 - 1084 ISSN 0013-5194 Altmetric
2014	Experimental study and analysis of a polymer fibre bragg grating embedded in a composite material Published In Journal of Lightwave Technology Volume 32 Pages 1726 - 1733 ISSN 0733-8724
2014	Hybrid fibre optic sensor system for measuring the strain, temperature and thermal strain of composite materials Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 14 Pages 2571 - 2578 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2014	Inscription of multiple bragg gratings in a single-mode polymer optical fibre using phase mask and its analysis Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 14 Pages 2384 - 2388 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2014	Microstructured fiber sealed-void interferometric humidity sensor Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 14 Pages 1154 - 1159 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2014	The investigation of the effect of vibration amplitude on vibration measurements of polarimetric fibre sensors embedded in composite beams Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 23 Pages 045037-1 - 045037-11 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2013	A fast response intrinsic humidity sensor based on an etched singlemode polymer fiber Bragg grating Published In Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Volume 203 Pages 107 - 111 ISSN 0924-4247
2013	High sensitivity force and pressure measurements using etched singlemode polymer fiber bragg gratings Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 13 Pages 1794 - 1800 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2013	Measurement of thermal elongation induced strain of a composite material using a polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber sensor Published In Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Volume 190 Pages 44 - 51 ISSN 0924-4247 Altmetric
2013	Polymer micro-fibre bragg grating Published In Optics Letters Volume 38 Pages 3359 - 3362 ISSN 0146-9592 Altmetric
2012	A photonic crystal fiber and fiber Bragg grating-based hybrid fiber-optic sensor system Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 12 Pages 39 - 43 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2012	Analysis of vibration measurements in a composite material using an embedded PM-PCF polarimetric sensor and an FBG sensor Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 12 Pages 1365 - 1371 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2012	Composite materials with embedded photonic crystal fiber interferometric sensors Published In Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Volume 182 Pages 57 - 67 ISSN 0924-4247 Altmetric
2012	Influence of lamination process on optical fiber sensors embedded in composite material Published In Measurement Volume 45 Pages 2275 - 2280 ISSN 0263-2241 Altmetric
2012	Photonic crystal fiber sensors for minimally invasive surgical devices Published In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Volume 59 Pages 332 - 338 ISSN 0018-9294 Altmetric
2011	A liquid crystal coated tapered photonic crystal fiber interferometer Published In Journal of Optics Volume 13 Pages 1 - 7 ISSN 2040-8978 Altmetric
2011	Improving the sensitivity of a humidity sensor based on fiber bend coated with a hygroscopic coating Published In Optics and Laser Technology Volume 43 Pages 1301 - 1305 ISSN 0030-3992 Altmetric
2011	Influence of angular orientation of the embedded highly birefringent fiber on pmd changes under axial stress Published In Acta Physica Polonica, Series A: General Physics, Physics of Condensed Matter, Optics and Quantum Electrodynamics Volume 120 Pages 575 - 578 ISSN 0587-4246
2011	Investigation and experimental measurement of scissor blade cutting forces using fiber Bragg grating sensors Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 20 Pages 1 - 9 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2011	Photonic crystal fiber interferometer for dew detection Published In Journal of Lightwave Technology Volume 30 Pages 1150 - 1155 ISSN 0733-8724 Altmetric
2011	The influence of thermal expansion of a composite material on embedded polarimetric sensors Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 20 Pages 1 - 7 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2010	A fiber Bragg grating-based all-fiber sensing system for telerobotic cutting applications Published In IEEE Sensors Journal Volume 10 Pages 1913 - 1920 ISSN 1530-437X Altmetric
2010	A hybrid highly birefringent fiber optic sensing system for simultaneous strain and temperature measurement Published In Photonics Letters of Poland Volume 2 Pages 140 - 142 Altmetric
2010	A voltage sensor based on a singlemode-multimode-singlemode fiber structure Published In Microwave and Optical Technology Letters Volume 52 Pages 1887 - 1890 ISSN 0895-2477 Altmetric
2010	Analysis of temperature dependence for a ratiometric wavelength measurement system using SMS fiber structure based edge filters Published In Optics Communications Volume 283 Pages 1291 - 1295 ISSN 0030-4018 Altmetric
2010	Experimental analysis and demonstration of a low cost fibre optic temperature sensor system for engineering applications Published In Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Volume 163 Pages 88 - 95 ISSN 0924-4247 Altmetric
2010	Humidity sensor based on photonic crystal fibre interferometer Published In Electronics Letters Volume 46 Pages 1341 - 1343 ISSN 0013-5194 Altmetric
2010	Optimum design for maximum wavelength resolution for an edge filter-based ratiometric system Published In Optics and Laser Technology Volume 42 Pages 1032 - 1037 ISSN 0030-3992 Altmetric
2010	Polarization dependence of an edge filter based on singlemode-multimode-singlemode fibre Published In Optics and Laser Technology Volume 42 Pages 1044 - 1048 ISSN 0030-3992 Altmetric
2010	Study of the effect of source signal bandwidth on ratiometric wavelength measurement Published In Applied Optics Volume 49 Pages 5626 - 5631 ISSN 1559-128X Altmetric

Chapter

Year	Title
2016	High sensitivity polymer fibre bragg grating sensors and devices Published In Photonic Materials for Sensing, Biosensing and Display Devices Publisher Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Pages 289 - 314 ISBN 9783319249902 Altmetric
2015	Introduction to optical fiber sensors Published In Optical fiber sensors: Advanced techniques and applications Publisher United States: CRC Press Pages 1 - 12 ISBN 9781482228250
2015	Optical Fiber Sensors for smart composite materials structures Published In Optical Fiber Sensors: Advanced Techniques and Applications Publisher United States: CRC Press Pages 491 - 520 ISBN 9781482228250
2015	Optical fiber humidity sensors Published In Optical Fiber Sensors: Advanced Techniques and Applications Publisher United States: CRC Press Pages 413 - 454 ISBN 9781482228250
2015	Polymer micro and microstructured fibre bragg gratings: Recent advancements and applications Published In Optofliudics, sensors and actuators in microstructured optical fibers Publisher United States: Elsevier Science Pages 207 - 227 ISBN 9781782423294
2013	Optical fiber sensors and interrogation systems for interaction force measurements in minimally invasive surgical devices Published In Smart sensor for industrial applications Publisher United States: CRC Press Pages 31 - 46 ISBN 9781466568105
2009	Analysis of strain transfer to FBG’s for sensorized telerobotic end-effector applications Published In Advances in robotics research: Theory, implementation, application Publisher Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media Pages 64 - 76 ISBN 9783642012136 Altmetric

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2017	Distributed strain measurement using fibre optics in a high performance composite hydrofoil Published In 21st International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-21) Pages 1 - 11
2017	Fibre Bragg Grating sensor based crack activity monitoring for mining applications Published In 2nd International Conference of Fibre-Optic and Photonic Sensors for Industrial and Safety Applications (OFSIS) Pages 66 - 66
2017	High Frequency Fibre Bragg Grating Interrogator for Monitoring Rock Cracking Events for Mining Applications Published In 2nd International Conference of Fibre-Optic and Photonic Sensors for Industrial and Safety Applications (OFSIS) Pages 45 - 51 Altmetric
2017	Machine learning based process monitoring and characterisation of automated composites Published In International SAMPE Technical Conference Pages 398 - 410
2017	The influence of consolidation force on the performance of AFP manufactured laminates Published In 21st International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-21) Pages 1 - 11
2016	Etched polymer fibre Bragg gratings Published In Photonics and Fiber Technology Congress (ACOFT, BGPP, NP) Pages 1 - 2 Altmetric
2016	Fibre Bragg grating sensing technology for the evaluation of physical properties of dental resin composites Published In Photonics and Fiber Technology Congress (ACOFT, BGPP, NP) Pages 1 - 2 Altmetric
2016	Fibre optic acoustic emission measurement technique for crack activity monitoring in civil engineering applications Published In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2016	Fibre optic acoustic emission sensor system for hydrogen induced cold crack monitoring in welding applications Published In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Pages 489 - 494 Altmetric
2016	High-sensitivity polymer fibre Bragg grating sensor for biomedical applications Published In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Pages 78 - 82 Altmetric
2016	Identification of defect in the automated tape placement process using fiber Bragg grating sensors Published In ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials
2016	Optical fiber Bragg grating sensors for process monitoring in advanced composites Published In 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Pages 222 - 226 Altmetric
2015	Polymer fiber Bragg grating force sensors for minimally invasive surgical devices Published In OFS2013 23rd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors 2 Pages 96551E-1 - 96551E-4 Altmetric
2014	Carbon fibre-foam sandwich composite laminate embedded with fiber Bragg grating sensors Published In 23rd International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors Pages 91579X-1 - 91579X-4 Altmetric
2014	Hydrostatic pressure sensitivity of standard polymer fibre bragg gratings and etched polymer fibre bragg gratings Published In 23rd International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors Pages 91573G-1 - 91573G-4 Altmetric
2014	Performance characterization of sandwich composites embedded with fibre Bragg grating Published In 8th Australasian Conference on Applied Mechanics Pages 904 - 911
2014	Polymer fibre Bragg grating sensors: Recent advancements and applications Published In 19th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the 39th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) Pages 797 - 799
2013	Fabrication and characterization of a polymer micro-fiber bragg grating Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Pages 892432-1 - 892432-4 Altmetric
2013	Fabrication and characterization of bragg gratings in polymer optical fibers using 248 nm irradiation Published In Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2013 Pages 138 - 146 Altmetric
2013	Investigation of light propagation in microstructured polymer optical fibers infiltrated with liquid crystals and its temperature dependence Published In Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Plastical Optical Fibers, POF 2013 Pages 130 - 134
2012	A demodulation scheme for a hybrid fiber sensor system for composite materials Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Pages 843929-1 - 843929-10 Altmetric
2012	Comparison of vibration measurements in composite materials using different types of polarimetric sensors Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Pages 842178-1 - 842178-4 Altmetric
2012	Control of light propagation in optical fibers using liquid crystals for applications in optical communications and sensing Published In ICP 2012 - 3rd International Conference on Photonics 2012, Proceedings Pages 331 - 335 Altmetric
2012	Etched singlemode polymer fiber Bragg gratings for high sensitivity tensile force measurements Published In Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2012 Pages 1 - 3 Altmetric
2012	Etching and iIts effects on gratings inscribed in singlemode polymer optical fibre Published In ACOFT 2012,
2012	Photonic crystal fiber strain sensors for laparoscopic surgical devices Published In Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2012 Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2012	Temperature insensitive miniature photonic crystal fiber interferometric (PCFI) strain sensors Published In 2012 International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS 2012 Pages 1 - 3
2011	Agarose coated single mode fiber bend for monitoring humidity Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Altmetric
2011	Detection of thermal expansion of carbon and glass reinforced fibre composite materials using polarimetric and fibre Bragg grating sensors Published In IconTOP
2011	Influence of the lamination process on the strain sensitivity of the fiber sensors embedded in composite materials Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Altmetric
2011	Miniature temperature insensitive fiber optic sensors for minimally invasive surgical devices Published In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Pages 77536Z-1 - 77536Z-4 Altmetric
2011	Performance analysis of composite materials embedded with optical fibre sensors Published In Sensors, 2011 IEEE Pages 351 - 354 Altmetric
2010	Composite materials with embedded optical fibre sensors for in-situ structural health monitoring Published In WICSM
2010	Design of a surface attachable hybrid fiber sensor packaged in a polyimide film for engineering applications Published In Fourth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors Altmetric

Editor Of

Book
- Optical fiber sensors: Advanced techniques and applications. United States. 2015

Investigator On

Year	Title
2016 - 2019	Flowable composite system with short S-glass fibre and hallosite nanotubes Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Other Research Activities

CASS Foundation Travel Grant Lead CI 2016
UIC Grant:- UOW-DIT Joint Research Program on Optical Fibre Sensing and Their applications Lead CI 2016

Impact Story

Potential Supervision Topics

Fibre optic sensors for biomedical applications

Smart composite structures

Fibre optic dental instrumentation

Fibre optic structural health monitoring

Students Graduated under my supervision

1. Kishore Bhowmik, PhD 2015 (UNSW)

2. Manjusha Ramakrishnan, PhD 2016 (DIT Ireland)

3. Ebrahim Orohieme, PhD 2017 (UNSW)

3. Fei Xia, MPhil 2018 (UOW)

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Acoustic Emission Measurement based on specialty FBG sensors and their application in welding for crack monitoring	Jinachandran, Sagar

Reviewer Of

Applied Optics (Journal)
Chinese Optics Letters (Journal)
Composites Part B: Engineering (Journal)
Electronics Letters (Journal)
IEEE Access (Journal)
IEEE Photonics Journal (Journal)
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Journal)
IEEE Sensors Journal (Journal)
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Journal)
Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (Journal)
Journal of Lightwave Technology (Journal)
Journal of Optics (Journal)
Measurement (Journal)
Measurement Science and Technology (Journal)
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Journal)
Optical Fiber Technology (Journal)
Optics Communications (Journal)
Optics Express (Journal)
Optics Letters (Journal)
Optics and Lasers in Engineering (Journal)
Optik (Journal)
Review of Scientific Instruments (Journal)
Scientific Reports (Journal)
Sensors (Journal)
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical (Journal)
Smart Materials and Structures (Journal)
Structural Health Monitoring: an international journal (Journal)

Professional Service Activities

CAMS2018, The 6th conference of the combined Australian Materials Societies, Symposium Co-Chair, Photonics, Sensors and Optoelectronics 2018 -
Polish Science Foundation International Grant Assessor 2017 -
The 9th Australasian Conference on Applied Mechanics Theme Leader, Structural Health Monitoring 2017 -
15th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices Technical Committee Co-Chair 2015 -
Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland Assessor- President Fellowships 2015 -
Portugal Science Foundation International Grant Assessor 2013 -
Sensors (Journal) Editorial Board Member 2019 - 2021

Keywords

applied-science, photonic-engineering, optical-fibre-sensing, structural-health-monitoring, smart-structures-and-composites, optical-fibre-devices, biomechatronic-applications

Full Name

Dr. Ginu Rajan

Mailing Address

School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

University of Wollongong

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-6848 (pending confirmation)

Scopus Id

14037956800

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