Our Optical Society student chapter chapter members have been busy presenting their research these last few weeks. Here are the highlights of their adventures.
Andy and Adrian – International School of Light and Sciences Technologies
Adrian Fernandez and Andy Thrapp just recently returned from a trip to Santander, Spain. Where both received complete grants to attend the 2019 International School of Light Sciences and Technologies. The event was held in the Palacio De Magdalena, an extraordinary site overlooking the Bay of Biscay. During their visit Andy and Adrian got to meet Donna Strickland the 2018 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics. Donna gave a talk about the topic of her PhD “Chirped Pulse Amplification.” Andy and Adrian got to see many other notable speakers such as Kishan Dholakia, Michael Hamblin and Robert Huber. We are both very grateful we had the chance to attend and look forward to keeping up with all the people we met.
Gianni – Oral Presentation at CLEO in Munich
Our OSA student chapter Vice President Gianni Nteroli was selected to deliver a talk on developments on using supercontinuum sources for high resolution multi-imaging instruments for biomedical applications. This project came about from a collaboration with NKT photonics. Research in this area is significant to develop imaging modalities which are capable of extracting both structural and functional information. Technologies like this will make way for the efficient monitoring of human tissue health. Imaging modalities such as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) can be limited by noise degrading images, this can be compounded by sources introducing additional noise. Gianni discussed current challenges and research paths.
Adrian – Poster Presentation in Barcelona
Our OSA student chapter Secretary Adrian Fernandez last week presented a poster at the student led International Network of Students (IONS) conference in Barcelona. Adrian’s work focused on master slave Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) a technique which is not widely known in the field of OCT.
Andy – Oral Presentation in Barcelona
Andy Thrapp our OSA student chapter President delivered a talk titled “Automatic motion compensation in Structured Illumination Microscopy.” The talk was around his research in optical sectioning microscope, and how any motion during a three frame acquisition process can lead to artefacts. Andy discussed approaches to correct those artefacts.
