Liam Barry's WWW Page
Contact Information :
School of Electronic Engineering
Dublin City
University
Dublin 9
Ireland.
email : liam.barry@dcu.ie
Tel. : +353 1 700-5431
Fax : +353 1 700-5508
Biography
Liam Barry received his BE (Electronic Engineering) and MEngSc
(Optical Communications) degrees from University
College Dublin in 1991 and 1993 respectively. From February 1993 until January
1996 he was employed as a Research Engineer in the Optical Systems Department
of France Telecom's Research Laboratories (now known as Orange Labs) in Lannion, France. During this period his
research involved the use of ultra short optical pulses in high capacity
optical networks, and as a result of this work he obtained his PhD Degree from
the University of Rennes in France.
In February 1996 he joined the Applied Optics Centre in Auckland University , New Zealand, as a Research Fellow. His work in New Zealand was
mainly concerned with optical pulse generation and measurement, and the use of
optical nonlinearities for high speed all-optical switching in fibre networks. In March 1998 he took up a lecturing
position in the School of Electronic
Engineering at Dublin City University, and
established the Radio and Optical
Communications Laboratory , which is part of The Rince
Institute. From April 2006 until February 2010 he served as Director of The
Rince Institute, and he is currently an Associate
Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering, a Principal Investigator for
Science Foundation Ireland,
and Director of the Radio and Optical Communications Laboratory. His teaching
responsibilities currently include a 4th year course on Optical Switching and
Transmission Systems, and a taught Masters course on Optical Communication
Systems Design. His main research interests are; all-optical signal processing,
optical pulse generation and characterization, hybrid radio/fibre
communication systems, wavelength tunable lasers for reconfigurable optical
networks, and optical performance monitoring. He has published over 100
articles in internationally peer reviewed journals, 150 papers in international
peer reviewed conferences, and holds 8 patents in the area of optoelectronics.
He has been a TPC member for the European Conference on Optical Communications
(ECOC) since 2004, and a TPC member for the Optical Fibre
Communication Conference (OFC) from 2007 to 2010, serving as Chair of the
Optoelectronic Devices sub-committee for OFC 2010.
Funded
Research Projects
Published Research
Optical Communications Laboratory
Postgraduate Research
Students
Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Teaching