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Office Location: IR 209
IRIS Building
Hawthorn Campus

Phone: +61-3-9214 4339
Fax: +61-3-92145050

Email: swade@swin.edu.au

Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
Mail No H66
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Dr Scott Wade

Senior Research Fellow

Qualifications:

  • PhD, Victoria University, Australia(2001)
  • B.Sc. (First Class Honours), Victoria University, Australia (1995)

Projects: Applied Optics Group- Optical Fibre Sensors

Research Interests

My research is largely focused on developing monitoring techniques for applications ranging from biomedical sensors to corrosion detection, using advanced optical and electrical techniques. I have worked on a range of optical fibre based measurements systems, including rare earth doped fibres and fibre Bragg gratings and help manage a fibre Bragg grating writing facility at Swinburne University. In addition to the optical fibre sensor studies I have an active interest in corrosion research. I have worked on the development and application of corrosion sensors for industrial infrastructure and the investigation of microbiologically influenced corrosion in the bilges of ships. My research is very applied in nature and has involved collaboration with a wide range of industry partners, government and academic institutions.

Selected Publications:

  • Fabrication of a pi-phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating at twice the Bragg wavelength with the standard phase mask technique. S.P. Yam, Z. Brodzeli, B.P. Kouskousis, C.M. Rollinson, S.A. Wade, G.W. Baxter and S.F. Collins, Opt. Lett. 34, pp.2021-2023 (2009)

  • Fiber Bragg grating tether used to measure drag forces in neutral buoyancy flow tank tests. S.A. Wade, W. Jolley and A. Fouras, Rev. Sci. Instrum 79, 065102 (2008)

  • A Fibre Optic Corrosion Fuse Sensor using Stressed Metal-Coated Optical Fibres. S.A. Wade, C.D. Wallbrink, G. McAdam, S. Galea, B.R.W. Hinton and R. Jones, Sensors and Actuators B 131, 602 (2008)

  • The effect of size on the quantitative estimation of defect depth in steel structures using lock-in thermography. C. Wallbrink, S.A. Wade, R. Jones, J. Appl. Phys 101, 104907 (2007)

  • Fluorescence intensity ratio technique for optical fiber temperature sensing. S.A. Wade, S.F. Collins and G.W. Baxter, J. Appl. Phys. 94, 4743 (2003)

  • Nondestructive imaging of a Type I optical fiber Bragg grating. N.M. Dragomir, C. Rollinson, S.A. Wade, A.J. Stevenson, S.F. Collins, G.W. Baxter, P.M.Farrell and A. Roberts, Opt. Lett. 28, 789 (2003)