EngD Conference - Optics and Photonics/ Digital Tools
Tuesday 3 August 2010, Postgraduate Centre, Heriot-Watt University
0930 Coffee, Registration & RE poster/presentation set up (HWU Postgraduate Centre, Foyer)
1000 Opening Address: Professor Steve Chapman- Principal & Vice Chancellor, Heriot-Watt University
1010 Javid Khan: Low resolution holographic volumetric 3D displays
1025 James Downing: Novel optical systems for reduced focal length imaging
1040 Viktor Granson: Instability processes and optimization in multi-kilowatt coaxial CO2 lasers
1055 Catherine Fitzpatrick: A superconducting single-photon detector system for quantum optics at telecom wavelengths
1110 Coffee
1140 Invited Speaker: Paul Harrison SPI Lasers; A Tale of Two Laser Start-up Companies
1215 Brian Flemming: A Systems Study of the Laser Directed Energy Battlespace
1230 Jochen Deile: Optical resonator modeling tools and optimization of a hybridstable-unstable resonator
1245 Mhairi Martin: Development of Mid-IR Sources
1300 Lunch
1415 Invited Speaker: Dr David Wesley Charlton BAES; Optical wireless links in aviator helmet applications
1450 Lucy Williamson-Hodge: Micro-mechanical sensors for medical diagnostic applications
1505 Daniel Drysdale: Development and Characterisation of Vapour Phase Sacrificial Etching
1520 John Skeffington: Investigation into Raman generation for visible electro-optic countermeasures
1535 Thomas Legg: Thermal Effects in Isolators for High Power Fibre Amplifiers
1550 Coffee
1620 James Beedell: Removal of phase matched coating from Porro prisms
1635 Yves Lacrotte: TBA
1650 James Bain: Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy For Aeroengine Related Applications
1705 Andrew White: The use of volume Bragg gratings as high reflectivity mirrors within solid state Lasers
1720 Daniel Esser: Mid-Infrared Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasersxz
DIGITAL TOOLS PRESENTATIONS (Room 1.27 Earl Mountbatten Building)
Presentations by Research Engineers on the Digital Tools stream of the course
1200 Margaret Anyaegbu: Higher Layer Synchronisation in Ultra-Wideband Networks
1215 Raul Hernandez Fernandez: Metrology-Oriented Wireless Communication Technologies
1230 Jonathan Letham: Contextual smoothing of image segmentation