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Dr Juna Sathian

Assistant Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

Dr Juna Sathian is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Physics & Electrical Engineering, and joined Northumbria University in July 2019. She is the Programme Leader for Physics and the Group Leader of the Quantum and Molecular Photonics research group. Her research area covers applied optics and the development of new technology. Her current research directions are focused on laser technology/ alexandrite ring lasers, room-temperature maser technology/diamond NV-colour centre characterisation, luminescent concentrator light technology for high brightness applications/ brightness enhanced solid-state light sources and optical spectroscopy.

Dr Sathian received her PhD in Nonlinear Optics and Laser Physics from Queensland University of Technology, Australia in Sep 2013. Her thesis entitled “Investigation of amplitude modulation contamination in electro-optic modulators”, was solving one of the serious problems of electro-optic modulator devices, a known issue in the LIGO gravitational wave detector system. She joined Imperial College London, Department of Materials as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2014 where she was a key researcher and co-developer of world’s first room-temperature continuous wave maser (in diamond), which has been patented and published in Nature. This also involved quantifying and characterising Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) colour centres in diamond in collaboration with the Department of Physics, University of Warwick. During this time she worked on a high brightness solid-state light source (LED-pumped luminescent concentrator); designed, built and written one of the most definitive papers on these devices and also holds a patent on this device. This solid-state light technology bridges the gap between high cost, very elaborate laser devices and lower cost low brightness light sources (e.g. lamps, direct LED), and should play an important technological role as next generation low cost, high brightness light sources in a range of future scientific, medical and industrial applications. She also worked at the Department of Physics, Imperial College London on a project funded by Innovate-UK. The project developed novel precision wavelength-tunable diode-pumped Alexandrite laser technology in collaboration with M Squared Lasers, a premier scientific UK laser company.

She is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She is an Honorary  Lecturer at Imperial College London and currently a research collaborator to the Maser Group at the Department of Materials and Photonics Group at the Department of Physics.

Juna Sathian

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Brightness-enhanced light source technology for medical imaging, Sathian, J., Ford, B. 2 Sep 2022, Photon 2022
  • Fundamental Analysis of Vehicular Light Communications and the Mitigation of Sunlight Noise, Eso, E., Ghassemlooy, Z., Zvanovec, S., Sathian, J., Gholami, A. 1 Jun 2021, In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Performance Analysis of Indoor Vehicular VLC Links for Autonomous Driving, Eso, E., Jarchlo, E., Ghassemlooy, Z., Zvanovec, S., Dressler, F., Sathian, J. 13 Sep 2021, 2021 IEEE 32nd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2021, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
  • Performance of Vehicular Visible Light Communications under the Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence with Aperture Averaging, Eso, E., Ghassemlooy, Z., Zvanovec, S., Sathian, J., Abadi, M., Younus, O. 13 Apr 2021, In: Sensors
  • Vehicle-to-Vehicle Relay-Assisted VLC with Misalignment Induced Azimuth or Elevation Offset Angles, Eso, E., Ghassemlooy, Z., Zvanovec, S., Pesek, P., Sathian, J. 15 Aug 2021, In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • Vehicular VLC: A Ray Tracing Study Based on Measured Radiation Patterns of Commercial Taillights, Eldeeb, H., Eso, E., Jarchlo, E., Zvanovec, S., Uysal, M., Ghassemlooy, Z., Sathian, J. 15 Aug 2021, In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • A Relay-Assisted Vehicular Visible Light Communications Network, Eso, E., Pesek, P., Chvojka, P., Ghassemlooy, Z., Zvanovec, S., Sathian, J. 28 Sep 2020, 2020 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2020 - Proceedings, Piscataway, NJ, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
  • Communication characteristics of high-brightness light sources based on luminescence concentration, Sathian, J., Mansour Abadi, M., Damzen, M., Ghassemlooy, Z. 20 Jul 2020, 2020 12th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2020, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
  • Nonastigmatic alexandrite ring laser design with wavelength-tunable single-longitudinal-mode operation, Sathian, J., Tawy, G., Sheng, X., Minassian, A., Damzen, M. 1 Jul 2020, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Sophia Long Brightness-enhancing solid-state technology for excitation application in masers Start Date: 01/10/2022

Physics PhD September 30 2013

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