• IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
• IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
• IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
• IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
• Optics Letters
• Journal of Optical Society of America B
• Optics Express

• AT&T Bell Laboratories (Holmdel, USA)
  Project: "Bends in Depressed-Cladding and W-Fibres" [J. Love, V. Steblina]
  Partner: Dr R.H. Stolen
• Telstra Research Laboratories (Melbourne)
  Project 1: "R&D Investigations of Planar Optical Waveguides Devices" [J. Love, V. Steblina]
  Partner: Dr P. Kemeny
  Project 2: "Planar Lightwave Circuits" [J. Love, V. Steblina]
  Partner: Ms M. Faith
• Ericsson Australia Pty Ltd
  Project: "Production of the first fully pigtailed, packaged and connectorized planar waveguide devices" [J. Love, F. Ladouceur, and V. Steblina]
  These devices, for which the Optical Sciences Centre provided the theoretical modelling, analysis and design, are the forerunners of a new high-tech planar waveguide device industry in Australia.
  Partners: University of Sydney, University of NSW.
• Siemens Ltd. (Melbourne)
  Project: "Bend-Induced Transceiver" [J. Love, V. Steblina]
  Partner: Mr J. Arkwright
• Laser Physics Centre (ANU, Canberra)
  Project: "Optical Vortices" [Yu. Kivshar, V. Steblina]
  Partner: Dr V. Tikhonenko
• Optical Fibre Technology Centre (Sydney University)
  Project: "Forward-Coupling Bragg Gratings" [J. Love, V. Steblina]
  Partners: Dr F. Ouellette, Dr P. Hill
  

• Hardware: IBM-PC Compatibles, Apple Macintosh, HP 9000/K260 and 735, HP Envizex X-Terminals
• OS/Platforms: Windows 95-98-2000, Mac-OS, SuSE Linux (6.4 & 7.0), Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, FreeBSD, Windows NT. Applications and system administration.
• Languages: C, Pascal, HTML, LaTeX, Unix Shell, SQL, CGI, Perl
• Software: RSOFT BeamPROP-CAD, Optiwave BPM-CAD, MSC.visualNastran (FEMAP FEA), SolidEdge (3D-CAD), Mathematica, IDL, Matlab, Maple, various publishing and graphics design software, Gnu Emacs, Sam, XFree86, PostgreSQL
• Networks: Windows / Linux Networks, WWW, ftp, telnet, TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, Sendmail

Extensive experience in the use of UNIX, Macintosh and IBM PC systems, in the application and design of a wide range of software. Familiar with UNIX shell programming, CGI, Perl, POSTGRES, SQL. Rapid learner of new formal concepts and systems.

Since 1994, I have been heavily involved in the modelling of optical waveguides. My Ph.D. lead to many computer based analyses of different aspects of light propagation in waveguides. Most of this programming has been done on DEC UNIX workstations and coprocessor equipped Macintoshes using C or Pascal depending on my collaborators. During the course of my Ph.D. I gained a detailed knowledge of the symbolic computation package Mathematica.

Waveguide propagation often leads to the solution of partial differential equations and I have written many programs implementing different approaches such as Beam Propagation Method (using Fast Fourier Transform and Finite Differences algorithms), Fourier Decomposition Method and other generalised Fourier-type methods. All of these methods transform the original problem to an eigenvalue problem that is solved by standard IMSL routines.

1. J. D. Love and V. V. Steblina, "Highly broadband buried channel couplers", Electronics Letters, 30, 1853-1855, (1994).
2. V. V. Steblina, Yu. S. Kivshar, M. Lisak and B. A. Malomed, "Self-guided beams in diffractive medium: variational approach", Optics Communications, 118, 345-352, (1995). View online or download. [Abstract] [ Full-text PDF (467 Kb)] [ISI]
3. A. V. Buryak, Yu. S. Kivshar, and V. V. Steblina, "Self-trapping of light beams and parametric solitons in diffractive quadratic media", Phys. Rev. A, 52, 1670-1674, (1995). [Abstract] [Full-text PDF (883 Kb)] [Online] [ISI]
4. S. J. Hewlett, J. D. Love and V. V. Steblina, "Analysis and design of highly-broadband planar evanescent couplers", Optical and Quantum Electronics, 28, 71-81, (1996).
5. V. Tikhonenko, Yu. S. Kivshar, V. V. Steblina and A. A. Zozulya, "Vortex solitons in a saturable optical medium", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 15, 79-86, (1998). [Abstract ] [ Full-text PDF (379 Kb)] [ISI]
6. V. V. Steblina, J. D. Love, R. H. Stolen and J-S. Wang, "Cladding mode degeneracy in bent W-fibres beyond cutoff", Optics Communications, 156, 271-274, (1998).
7. V. V. Steblina, Yu. S. Kivshar, and A.V. Buryak, "Scattering and spiraling of solitons in a bulk quadratic medium", Optics Letters, 23, 156-158, (1998). [Abstract] [Full-text PDF (513 Kb)] [ISI]
8. V. Steblina, A. Buryak, Yu. Kivshar, C. De Angelis, A. Barthelemy, and B. Bourliaguet, "Another twist of light: soliton collisions in bulk media", Optics & Photonics News, Vol. 9 No. 12, 50-51, (1998) [Special Issue "Optics'98"].
9. A. V. Buryak and V. V. Steblina, "Soliton collisions in bulk quadratic media: comprehensive analytical and numerical study", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 16, 245-255, (1999).
10. A. V. Buryak, V. V. Steblina, and R. A. Sammut, "Solitons and collapse suppression due to parametric interaction in bulk Kerr media", Optics Letters, 24, 1859-1861, (1999).
11. A. V. Buryak and V. V. Steblina, "Quadratic solitons: new possibility for all-optical switching", Aust. J. Phys., 52, 697-714, (1999).
12. V. Steblina, A. Buryak, R. Sammut, D. Zhou, M. Segev, and P. Prucnal, "Stable self-guided propagation of two optical harmonics coupled by a microwave or a terahertz wave", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 2026-2031, (2000). Download PDF file.
13. Kazimir Y. Kolossovski, Alexander V. Buryak, Victoria V. Steblina, Alan R. Champneys, and Rowland A. Sammut "Higher-order nonlinear modes and bifurcation phenomena due to degenerate parametric four-wave mixing", Physical Review E, 4309-4317, (2000). Download GZIP copy of the ps paper (1.12MB).
14. S. T. Huntington, B. C. Gibson, J. Canning, K. Digweed-Lyytikäinen, J. D. Love, and V. Steblina, "A fractal-based fibre for ultra-high throughput optical probes", Opt. Express 15, 2468-2475, (2007) Download PDF file.

1. J.D. Love and V.V. Steblina. "R&D investigations of planar optical waveguides devices". Stage 1 report. Telecom Research Laboratories. Contract N: 7356. May 1994.
2. J.D. Love and V.V. Steblina, "Highly broadband buried channel couplers", Proceedings of 19th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, Melbourne, December 1994, pp. 282-285.
3. V.V. Steblina, A.V. Buryak and Yu.S. Kivshar, "Self-trapping of light beams and (2+1) solitons in quadratic media", 4th Workshop on Guided Wave Optics, Sydney, July 1995.
4. S.J. Hewlett, J.D. Love and V.V. Steblina, "Analysis and design of highly broadband buried channel waveguide couplers", 9th International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials, Workshop on Planar Optical Waveguides & Devices, Bateman's Bay, NSW, February 1995.
5. J.D. Love and V.V. Steblina. "R&D investigations of planar optical waveguides devices". Stage 2 report. Telecom Research Laboratories. Contract N: 7356. February 1995.
6. V.V. Steblina, J.D. Love and F. Ladouceur, "Supermode analysis of fibre bend loss", Proceedings of 20th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, Coolum Beach, Queensland, December 1995, pp. 67-70.
7. V.V. Steblina, J.D. Love and S. J. Hewlett, "Analysis and design of highly broadband buried channel waveguide couplers", Proceedings of 32nd Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference, Masterton, New Zealand, February 1996.
8. V.V. Steblina, J.D. Love, R.H. Stolen and J-S. Wang, "Bend birefringence in W-fibres", Proceedings of 21th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, Conrad Jupiters, Gold Coast, Queensland, December 1996, pp. 237-240.
9. V.V. Steblina, Yu.S. Kivshar and A.V. Buryak, "Collision, fusion, and spiralling of interacting solitons in a bulk quadratic medium", Optical Guided Waves & Applications Meeting, Canberra, July 1997.
10. V.V. Steblina, J.D. Love, R.H. Stolen and J-S. Wang, "Bend birefringence in finite-cladding W-fibres", Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications / 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications, Edinburgh, UK, 22-25 September 1997.
11. V.V. Steblina, Yu. S. Kivshar, and A.V. Buryak "Collision, fusion and spiralling of interacting solitons in a bulk quadratic medium", NATO Advanced Study Institute on Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes, Sozopol, Bulgaria, Sep 21 - Oct 3, 1997.
    A. D. Boardman et al. (eds.), Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes, 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 201-204.
12. V. V. Steblina, A. V. Buryak, and Yu. S. Kivshar, "Scattering and spiralling of solitons in a bulk quadratic medium", in Nonlinear Guided Waves & Their Applications, Vol. 5, OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, USA, 1998), Victoria, BC, Canada, April 1998, pp. 293-295.
13. V. Steblina, A. Buryak, and Yu. Kivshar, "All-optical soliton switching in quadratic nonlinear media", Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 1998.
14. T. Alexander, Yu. Kivshar, A. Buryak, V. Steblina, and R. Sammut, "Multiple-charged optical vortex solitons due to parametric wave mixing", Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 1998.
15. A. V. Buryak, V. V. Steblina, R. A. Sammut, M. Segev, D. Zhou, and P. Prucnal "Stable solitons due to three-wave mixing of two optical harmonics and low-frequency wave", Proceedings of 24th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, Sydney, July 1999, pp. 64-68.
16. V. V. Steblina, A. V. Buryak, R. A. Sammut, and Yu. S. Kivshar, "Collapse suppression via parametric wave mixing", in Nonlinear Guided Waves & Their Applications, OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, USA, 1999), Dijon, France, September 1999, pp. 67-69.
17. B. C. Gibson, C. M. Rollinson, S. T. Huntington, J. Canning, K. Lyytikainen, J. D. Love & V. Steblina, "Ultra-high Throughput Optical Probes based on Fractal Fibre", Proceedings of COIN – ACOFT 2007, Melbourne, 24 – 27 July 2007

• 1996 Postgraduate Seminars of the Graduate Program in Physical Sciences, ANU (Canberra, October 1996): "Bend birefringence in W-fibres".
• 1st Annual OSA New Focus Student Award Forum (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 1998).
  "All-optical soliton switching in quadratic nonlinear media"

• Telstra Research Laboratories (Melbourne, May 1994):
  "Planar optical couplers and devices".
• Telstra Research Laboratories (Melbourne, February 1995):
  "Analysis and design of broadband planar couplers".
• Centre for Laser Science, University of Queensland (Brisbane, December 1997).
  "Solitons in diffractive quadratic media: applications to all-optical switching".