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Visit to Japan
November 2008
Sergiy Korposh (left side of table, 2nd from wall), Renata Jarzebinska (right side of table, nearest wall), Bill Batty (left of Renata), and Steve James (left of Bill).
Renata Jarzebinska and Steve James visited Kitakyushu University to attend the 2nd International Optical Sensors Symposium for optical sensor development and applications, organised by Professor Bill Batty of Cranfield University at Kitakyushu. Steve presented two papers describing the group’s activities in gas sensing and in fibre optic sensing, while the collaborative work of the EPG and Prof. S W Lee’s group from the University of Kitakyushu on fibre optic chemical sensing was presented by Dr. Sergiy Korposh of KKU.
The highly successful symposium was followed by a two-day workshop of optical fibre sensors, and spent a further, very fruitful two weeks in Prof. Lee’s labs.
Gas detection using tunable diode laser spectroscopy (TDLS)
Dr. J Hodgkinson
Presented at the 2nd International Optical Sensors Symposium for optical sensor development and applications, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan, November 2008.
Optical sensing of physical measurands
Dr. S James
Presented at the 2nd International Optical Sensors Symposium for optical sensor development and applications, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan, November 2008.
Ralph Tatam to appear on The Simpsons?
November 2008
Ralph Tatam was invited to make a presentation on the EPG’s work on quantitative shearography in Springfield, USA, at the Society for Experimental Mechanic’s Fall meeting celebrating the 60th anniversary of holography.
Left to right: Christophe Gorecki, Ralph Tatam, and Wolfgang Osten.
Quantitative multi-component shearography
S W James and R P Tatam
Presented at the SEM International Symposium to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Invention of Holography, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, October 27-29, 2008.
Viva success
September 2008
Stephen Buggy flew in from South Africa to successfully defend his thesis, and then flew out again.
Conference
August 2008
Ralph Tatam attended SPIE’s Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego, presenting the EPG’s work on speckle interferometry
Development of a multi-component shearography instrument for surface strain measurement on dynamic objects
D Francis, S W James, and R P Tatam
Presented at Interferometry XIV: Techniques and Analysis, part of SPIE’s International Symposium, Optics and Photonics, San Diego, USA, August 2008.
Proc. SPIE 7063, art. no. 706308 (2008).
Summer in Hull
June – September 2008
Members of the EPG team (Edmond Chehura, Ricardo Correia, Jin Li, Steve James, and Steve Staines) spent much of the summer installing fibre Bragg grating sensors on foundation piles at sites in Hull and in North London. The work, funded by the EPSRC Challenging Engineering Award, was aimed at investigating the use of static, statnamic, and dynamic testing to assess the health of foundation piles, and to investigate the load bearing capacity of a new design for foundation piles. Details of the test will be posted soon.
Laser Focus World Newsbreak
June 2008
Our work on second harmonic generation using monolayer coated optical fibres has been featured in Laser Focus World’s Newsbreak section. The article can be read here and our feature is the third one in the series.
Viva success
May 2008
Dan Francis interrupted his preparations for his round the world trip to defend his thesis.
Viva success
March 2008
Richard Murphy became the latest member of the EPG to successfully defend his thesis.
Viva success
March 2008
Zenghai Lu successfully defended his thesis on Planar Doppler Velocimetry.
The Japanese connection
February 2008
Steve James visited Kitakyushu University in Japan to make a presentation at a symposium on the EPG’s work on fibre optic sensors based on LPGs coated with nano-structured coatings, and to spend some time working in the laboratories of Professor S-W Lee, a chemistry professor, running a research group with interests in the use of nanomaterials for chemical sensing.
Prof. Lee then visited Cranfield with members of his team to continue the work. The results of which will be published shortly.
Prof. Lee’s visit was closely followed by a visit from Dr. Suzuki, also of Kitakyushu University, who came to undertake collaborative work in the field of speckle interferometry.
Do you know the way to … BiOS 2008
January 2008
George Sarantavgas presented the EPG’s latest work on optical coherence tomography at the BiOS conference in San Jose.
Imaging fibre bundles for Fizeau based optical coherence tomography
G Sarantavgas, H D Ford, and R P Tatam
Presented at BiOS 2008, San Jose, CA, January 2008.
Conference in a land down under
January 2008
Members of the EPG will attend OFS-19 in Perth, Australia in April 2008, presenting recent progress in a number of fields; including shearography, full-field flow measurement, and long period and fibre Bragg grating sensors.
Renata presenting her poster at OFS, Perth.
A long period grating based directional flow sensor
S J Buggy, S W James, and R P Tatam
Presented at OFS-19, Perth, Australia, 2008.
To be published in the proceedings, SPIE, 2008.
A transverse loading technique to enhance the pressure measurement capability of fibre Bragg gratings
R Correia, J Li, E Chehura, S W James, and R P Tatam
Presented at OFS-19, Perth, Australia, 2008.
To be published in the proceedings, SPIE, 2008.
Response of the transmission spectrum of tapered optical fibres to the deposition of a nanostructed coating
S C Cheung, S W James, and R P Tatam
Presented at OFS-19, Perth, Australia, 2008.
To be published in the proceedings, SPIE, 2008.
Surface strain measurement of rotating objects using shearography instrumentation based on fibre optic imaging bundles
D Francis, S W James, and R P Tatam
Presented at OFS-19, Perth, Australia, 2008.
To be published in the proceedings, SPIE, 2008.
3D planar velocity measurments using Mach-Zehnder interferometric-filter-based planar Doppler velocimetry (MZI-PDV) and imaging fibre bundles
T O Charrett, H D Ford, and R P Tatam
Presented at OFS-19, Perth, Australia, 2008.
To be published in the proceedings, SPIE, 2008.