Darcy Smith

Research Interests

Lasers and Quantum Electronics Optics

Mr Darcy Smith

Research Assistant

Future Industries Institute

Future Industries Institute

I am a PhD student in the field of optics, specializing in multimode optical fibers, fibre sensing and fibre amplifiers. My current work is with a high power, multimode, 1550nm Er/Yb fibre amplifier, employing a novel wavefront shaping technique for nonlinear effect suppression and output beam shaping.

Previous work of mine has focussed on multimode optical fibre sensing, looking at temperature sensing with specialty optical fibres such as suspended core and sapphire crystal fibre.

Date Position Institution name
2022 - ongoing PhD candidate University of Adelaide

Year Citation
2024 Reja, M. I., Smith, D. L., Nguyen, L. V., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., & Warren-Smith, S. C. (2024). Multimode Optical Fiber Specklegram Pressure Sensor Using Deep Learning. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 73(7003910), 1-10.
DOI Scopus10 WoS9
2024 Smith, D. L., Nguyen, L. V., Reja, M. I., Schartner, E. P., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Ottaway, D. J., & Warren-Smith, S. C. (2024). Harnessing the power of complex light propagation in multimode fibers for spatially resolved sensing. Photonics Research, 12(3), 411-422.
DOI Scopus6 WoS4
2022 SMITH, D. L., NGUYEN, L. V., OTTAWAY, D. J., CABRAL, T. D., Fujiwara, E., CORDEIRO, C. M. B., & WARREN-SMITH, S. C. (2022). Machine learning for sensing with a multimode exposed core fiber specklegram sensor. Optics Express, 30(7), 1-13.
DOI Scopus52 WoS41 Europe PMC6

Year Citation
2025 Henderson Sapir, O., Smith, D. L., Nguyen, L. V., Wei, S., Holme, C., Ebendorff Heidepriem, H., . . . Ottaway, D. J. (2025). Towards diffraction limited output via wavefront shaping in a record peak power, single-frequency, pulsed 1.5 μm multimode fibre amplifier. In P. Peterka, K. Kalli, J. Ballato, & A. Mendez (Eds.), Eighth International Workshop On Specialty Optical Fibers And Their Applications, Wsof 2025 Vol. 13522 (pp. 1-3). Czech Republic: Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
DOI
2025 Smith, D. L., Henderson-Sapir, O., Singh, J., Wei, S., Nguyen, L. V., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., . . . Ottaway, D. J. (2025). Wavefront Shaping for Near-Diffraction Limited Multimode Output in a Record Peak Power, Single-Frequency, 1.5 μm Fiber Amplifier. In 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics CLEO 2025.
2024 Smith, D. L., Henderson-Sapir, O., Nguyen, L. V., Warren-Smith, S. C., & Ottaway, D. J. (2024). Multimode fiber amplifier modelling for wavefront shaping applications. In CLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO: S and I 2024 in Proceedings CLEO 2024, Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (pp. STu4D.4). US: Optical Society of America.
DOI
2024 Smith, D. L., Henderson-Sapir, O., Nguyen, L. V., Warren-Smith, S. C., & Ottaway, D. J. (2024). Multimode fiber amplifier modelling for wavefront shaping applications. In 2024 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2024.
2024 Sapir, O. H., Wei, S., Holme, C., Smith, D., Warren Smith, S. C., Nguyen, L. V., . . . Ottaway, D. J. (2024). Active beam shaping in a 1.5 µm pulsed single-frequency multimode fibre amplifier. In Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2024): CLEO: Science and Innovations (pp. STu4D.1). US: Optica Publising Group.
DOI Scopus2

Year Citation
2023 Smith, D. L., Nguyen, L. V., Reja, M. I., Schartner, E. P., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Ottaway, D. J., & Warren-Smith, S. C. (2023). Harnessing the power of complex light propagation in multimode fibers
for spatially resolved sensing.

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