Bill MacPherson — Heriot-Watt University

Personal profile

Research interests

William MacPherson is a Lecturer in Physics and a member of the Applied Optics and Photonics research group in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences. His research interests are centred around the application of optical and fibre-optic techniques for measurement and instrumentation. This work includes high bandwidth temperature and pressure sensors for aerodynamic and explosion monitoring, novel fibres for structural monitoring, vibration and acceleration measurement, and studies into potential sensing applications of novel microstructured fibres. Many of these projects have been in colaboration with industry (such as QinetiQ, Rolls-Royce, Land Rover, Image Automation), and other Universities (including Oxford, Bath, Sheffield, Aston, Birmingham, and Leeds Universities).He has published over 90 journal and conference papers in this area, and is on the organising committee for the 2010 European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors and local organising commitee for the 20th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors.

Roles & Responsibilities

Associate Editor IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Sensors Council.

Bill is part of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Laser-based Production Processes.

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Research Output 1996 2018

75 Article
41 Conference contribution
15 Paper
1 Other chapter contribution

Accelerated through-life performance evaluation of fibre Fabry-Pérot pressure sensors

Dyer, T. C., MacPherson, W. N., Brooks, S. J. & McCulloch, S., 2018, Optical Fiber Sensors 2018. Optical Society of America, TuE33

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Pressure sensors

Fibers

Aging of materials

Experiments

Bio-inspired all-optical artificial neuromast for 2D flow sensing

Wolf, B. J., Morton, J. A. S., Macpherson, W. N. & Van Netten, S. M., Mar 2018, In : Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 13, 2, 026013.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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Optical Fibers

Bragg gratings

Optical flows

Sensors

Deconvolution

Fabrication and characterization of machined multi-core fiber tweezers for single cell manipulation

Anastasiadi, G., Leonard, M., Paterson, L. & MacPherson, W. N., 1 Feb 2018, In : Optics Express. 26, 3, p. 3557-3567

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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numerical aperture

manipulators

fabrication

fibers

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Fibre bragg grating based attitude sensor

Papachristou, N., Morton, J., Dzipalski, A., Polyzos, D., Maier, R. R. J. & MacPherson, W. N., 2018, Optical Fiber Sensors 2018. Optical Society of America, TuE89

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

File

Fiber Bragg gratings

Sensors

Gravitation

Calibration

Fabrication