Terry Quinlan joined the Access Networks Group in 1990 and carried out early work on CWDM optical systems as part of his involvement with ACORN and OAKLEAF two consecutively EPSRC funded projects. This was immediately followed by a BT funded project which led to the development of some novel, very low power transmission techniques for VDSL, using both copper and optical media. Two EU funded projects followed this, UROOF and MUSE which included experimental work on the use of reflective optical transducers and burst mode receivers as well as the use of some advanced wireless modulation techniques and analysis of the resulting complex signals. Next came FIVER, another EU funded project where he was responsible for experimental work and implementation of the Radio Over Fibre techniques developed at Essex to enable multiple format wireless / service provision over extended reaches in a metro environment. He is currently employed on the SODALES project, engaged in modelling and development of novel 60 GHz antenna designs and array behaviour prediction and performance measurements. An MSc by dissertation was completed in 2008 on the subject of Multi-Gigabit Patch Antenna designs and he is currently studying for a PhD based around optically remoted RF sensing. These projects have resulted in the publication of 80 conference and journal papers.
