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PhD Success!!
November 2010
Congratulations go to Renata Jarzebinska on successfully defending her thesis on fibre-optic sensing using tapered optical fibres.
Visit to Japan
November 2010
Steve James visited the Universities on the Kitakyushu Science and Research Park (KSRP) in Japan in his new role as the chair of the Cranfield International Collaborative Research Forum, and spent time in the laboratories of Professor Lee of Kitakyushu University, continuing their long-standing collaboration on the development of optical-fibre chemical sensors. He also gave a presentation at the International Symposium on Low Carbon Futures, held on the KSRP on 24th November, providing a perspective on the role of measurement science in the low carbon society.
Cover of MST
October 2010
The October edition of Measurement Science and Technology featured our review of shearography technology and applications. The review was a collaboration between Engineering Photonics and the Optical Non-destructive Testing Laboratory at the Delft University of Technology led by former EP member Roger Groves. Dan Francis originally worked on the review whilst on a one-month internship at TU Delft in the summer of 2009 following a year of international travel, rejoining EP in early 2010 before the paper was published. The cover image shows a simulated out-of-plane shearography phase map produced in Matlab.
Front cover of the October 2010 edition of Measurement Science and Technology featuring the review paper on shearography.
New York, New York
October 2010
Ralph Tatam jetted over to New York to attend the SPIE Board of Directors meeting.
European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors
September 2010
Steve James represented the DEP at EWOFS, presenting two posters, chairing a discussion group and sitting on the technical programme committee.
A fibre Bragg grating based inclinometer system for ground movement measurement
J Li, R Correia, E Chehura, S Staines, S W James, and R P Tatam
Presented at the 4th European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors (EWOFS 10), Porto, Portugal, September 2010
Proc. SPIE 7653, 765314-1
A fibre Bragg grating based inclinometer system for ground movement measurement
S Korposh, W Batty, S Kodaira, S-W Lee, S W James, S M Topliss, and R P Tatam
Presented at the 4th European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors (EWOFS 10), Porto, Portugal, September 2010
Proc. SPIE 7653, 76531D-1
DEP represented at the World’s largest trade fair for the rail industry, Innotrans 2010
September 2010
Dr. Stephen Buggy attended the World’s largest rail industry trade fair held in Berlin to represent the Department of Engineering Photonics. At the UNIFE (the Association of the European Rail Industry) stand the PMnIDEA (Predictive Maintenance employing Non-intrusive Ispection and Data Analysis) project was presented by the project leader, Corus Steel Rail Products (now Tata Steel). The project’s aim is to help reduce the burden on inspection and maintenance of Europe’s increasingly congested rail and tramways through the development of novel sensor technologies and procedures. The Department of Engineering Photonics is investigating the use of fibre sensors for the purpose of structural health monitoring of railway sub-components as a viable method of achieving this aim.
Further information can be found at http://www.pmnidea.eu/
Back in the USA
August 2010
Ralph Tatam, in his capacity as a member of the SPIE Board of Directors, attended the Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego.
Photon 10
August 2010
Steve James and Tom Charrett presented their work at Photon 10 in Southampton.
Speckle velocimetry for high accuracy and multi-dimensional odometry
T O H Charrett and R P Tatam
Presented at Photon 10, University of Southampton, UK, August 2010
Fibre optic long period grating sensors with nanoscale coatings
S W James
Invited presentation at Photon 10, University of Southampton, UK, August 2010
Impact factor continues to rise
June 2010
The impact factor of Optics and Laser Technology, edited by Steve James, has risen again this year and is now 0.981.
Plenary presentation
March 2010
Ralph Tatam continues his tour of California, stopping off to give a plenary presentation on the DEP’s work on structural monitoring at SPIE’s Smart Structures conference, held in San Diego.
Photonic Sensing for Structural Monitoring
R P Tatam
Presented at SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2010, San Diego, USA, March 2010
Go West
January 2010
Ralph Tatam attended the Photonics West Conference, 22nd – 27th January 2010 in San Francisco, USA in his new role as a Director of the SPIE.
