Mr Simon Mekhail
- Research Fellow (School of Physics & Astronomy)
Publications
2025
Archibald, Robert, Mekhail, Simon Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Wolley, Osian
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1016-9796, Hu, Hao-Wei, Gibson, Graham
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-8654 and Padgett, Miles
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2025)
Sensitive interferometry with multimode fibres.
Optics Express, 33(77),
pp. 15878-15887.
(doi: 10.1364/OE.555168)
MacGruer, Angus G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3822-1816, Johnson, Steven D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-8303, Mekhail, Simon P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Nutt, Kyle J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-1403, Padgett, Miles J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618 and Gibson, Graham M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-8654
(2025)
Characterising the performance of a drone-mounted real-time methane imaging system.
Scientific Reports, 15,
8787.
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-93186-z)
(PMID:40082660)
(PMCID:PMC11906584)
2024
Johnson, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-8303, Gee, Hal, Nwachi, Faith and Mekhail, Simon Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208
(2024)
Fiber-based high-speed fringe projection profilometry.
Optics and Laser Technology, 177,
111173.
(doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2024.111173)
Hu, Hao-Wei, Mekhail, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Archibald, Robert, Wolley, Osian and Padgett, Miles
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2024)
The speckled output of a multi-mode optical fibre and sensitivity to fibre perturbations.
Optics Continuum, 3(9),
pp. 1602-1611.
(doi: 10.1364/OPTCON.528354)
Wolley, O., Gregory, T., Mekhail, S.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Archibald, R. and Padgett, M.J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2024)
Low photon-number stand-off speckle holography at kHz frame rates.
Optics Continuum, 3(9),
pp. 1732-1740.
(doi: 10.1364/OPTCON.537439)
Pearce, Emma, Wolley, Osian, Mekhail, Simon P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Gregory, Thomas, Gemmell, Nathan R., Oulton, Rupert F., Clark, Alex S., Phillips, Chris C. and Padgett, Miles J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2024)
Single-frame transmission and phase imaging using off-axis holography with undetected photons.
Scientific Reports, 14,
16008.
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-66233-4)
(PMID:38992022)
(PMCID:PMC11239902)
2023
Abdulaziz, Abdullah, Mekhail, Simon Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Altmann, Yoann, Padgett, Miles J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618 and McLaughlin, Stephen
(2023)
Robust real-time imaging through flexible multimode fibers.
Scientific Reports, 13,
11371.
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38480-4)
(PMID:37452098)
(PMCID:PMC10349048)
Wolley, O., Mekhail, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Moreau, P.-A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7628-5821, Gregory, T., Gibson, G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-8654, Leuchs, G. and Padgett, M.J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2023)
Near single-photon imaging in the shortwave infrared using homodyne detection.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(10),
e2216678120.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2216678120)
(PMID:36857346)
2022
Mitton, Joshua, Mekhail, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Padgett, Miles
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618, Faccio, Daniele
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X, Aversa, Marco and Murray-Smith, Roderick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962
(2022)
Bessel Equivariant Networks for Inversion of Transmission Effects in Multi-Mode Optical Fibres.
In: 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, 28th November - 9th December 2022,
2021
Stellinga, Daan, Phillips, David B., Mekhail, Simon Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Selyem, Adam, Turtaev, Sergey, Čižmár, Tomáš and Padgett, Miles J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2021)
Time-of-flight 3D imaging through multimode optical fibers.
Science, 374(6573),
pp. 1395-1399.
(doi: 10.1126/science.abl3771)
Gregory, T., Moreau, P.-A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7628-5821, Mekhail, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Wolley, O. and Padgett, M.J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2021)
Noise rejection through an improved quantum illumination protocol.
Scientific Reports, 11,
21841.
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01122-8)
(PMID:34750423)
(PMCID:PMC8575956)
Articles
Archibald, Robert, Mekhail, Simon Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Wolley, Osian
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1016-9796, Hu, Hao-Wei, Gibson, Graham
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-8654 and Padgett, Miles
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2025)
Sensitive interferometry with multimode fibres.
Optics Express, 33(77),
pp. 15878-15887.
(doi: 10.1364/OE.555168)
MacGruer, Angus G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3822-1816, Johnson, Steven D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-8303, Mekhail, Simon P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Nutt, Kyle J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-1403, Padgett, Miles J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618 and Gibson, Graham M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-8654
(2025)
Characterising the performance of a drone-mounted real-time methane imaging system.
Scientific Reports, 15,
8787.
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-93186-z)
(PMID:40082660)
(PMCID:PMC11906584)
Johnson, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-8303, Gee, Hal, Nwachi, Faith and Mekhail, Simon Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208
(2024)
Fiber-based high-speed fringe projection profilometry.
Optics and Laser Technology, 177,
111173.
(doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2024.111173)
Hu, Hao-Wei, Mekhail, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Archibald, Robert, Wolley, Osian and Padgett, Miles
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2024)
The speckled output of a multi-mode optical fibre and sensitivity to fibre perturbations.
Optics Continuum, 3(9),
pp. 1602-1611.
(doi: 10.1364/OPTCON.528354)
Wolley, O., Gregory, T., Mekhail, S.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Archibald, R. and Padgett, M.J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2024)
Low photon-number stand-off speckle holography at kHz frame rates.
Optics Continuum, 3(9),
pp. 1732-1740.
(doi: 10.1364/OPTCON.537439)
Pearce, Emma, Wolley, Osian, Mekhail, Simon P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Gregory, Thomas, Gemmell, Nathan R., Oulton, Rupert F., Clark, Alex S., Phillips, Chris C. and Padgett, Miles J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2024)
Single-frame transmission and phase imaging using off-axis holography with undetected photons.
Scientific Reports, 14,
16008.
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-66233-4)
(PMID:38992022)
(PMCID:PMC11239902)
Abdulaziz, Abdullah, Mekhail, Simon Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Altmann, Yoann, Padgett, Miles J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618 and McLaughlin, Stephen
(2023)
Robust real-time imaging through flexible multimode fibers.
Scientific Reports, 13,
11371.
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38480-4)
(PMID:37452098)
(PMCID:PMC10349048)
Wolley, O., Mekhail, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Moreau, P.-A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7628-5821, Gregory, T., Gibson, G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-8654, Leuchs, G. and Padgett, M.J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2023)
Near single-photon imaging in the shortwave infrared using homodyne detection.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(10),
e2216678120.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2216678120)
(PMID:36857346)
Stellinga, Daan, Phillips, David B., Mekhail, Simon Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Selyem, Adam, Turtaev, Sergey, Čižmár, Tomáš and Padgett, Miles J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2021)
Time-of-flight 3D imaging through multimode optical fibers.
Science, 374(6573),
pp. 1395-1399.
(doi: 10.1126/science.abl3771)
Gregory, T., Moreau, P.-A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7628-5821, Mekhail, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Wolley, O. and Padgett, M.J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618
(2021)
Noise rejection through an improved quantum illumination protocol.
Scientific Reports, 11,
21841.
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01122-8)
(PMID:34750423)
(PMCID:PMC8575956)
Conference Proceedings
Mitton, Joshua, Mekhail, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-4208, Padgett, Miles
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618, Faccio, Daniele
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X, Aversa, Marco and Murray-Smith, Roderick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962
(2022)
Bessel Equivariant Networks for Inversion of Transmission Effects in Multi-Mode Optical Fibres.
In: 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, 28th November - 9th December 2022,
Research datasets
2025
MacGruer, A. G. , Johnson, S. D., Mekhail, S. P. , Nutt, K. J., Padgett, M. J. and Gibson, G. M. (2025) Characterising the performance of a drone-mounted real-time methane imaging system. [Data Collection]
2023
Wolley, O. , Moreau, P.-A. , Mekhail, S., Gregory, T., Gibson, G. , Leuchs, G. and Padgett, M. (2023) Near single-photon imaging in the short-wave infrared using homodyne detection. [Data Collection]
2021
Gregory, T., Moreau, P.-A. , Mekhail, S., Wolley, O. and Padgett, M. (2021) Noise rejection through an improved quantum illumination protocol. [Data Collection]
Stellinga, D., Phillips, D. B., Mekhail, S., Selyem, A., Turtaev, S., Čižmár, T. and Padgett, M. (2021) Time of flight 3D imaging through multimode optical fibres. [Data Collection]