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Atmospheric optical turbulence analysis in London’s financial district (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Westerby-Griffin, L., Osborn, J., Farley, O. J. D., Griffiths, R., & Love, G. D. (2023, January). Atmospheric optical turbulence analysis in London’s financial district. Presented at Free-Space Laser Communications XXXV, San Francisco, United States

Atmospheric optical turbulence causes signal loses in laser propagation. Here we present vertical measurements of optical turbulence taken in London’s financial district. Additionally, we demonstrate a method of modelling atmospheric states in simula... Read More about Atmospheric optical turbulence analysis in London’s financial district.

Atmospheric optical turbulence measurements at varying elevation angles (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Westerby-Griffin, L., Osborn, J., Farley, O. J. D., Griffiths, R., & Love, G. D. (2023, January). Atmospheric optical turbulence measurements at varying elevation angles. Paper presented at Free-Space Laser Communications XXXV, San Francisco, United States

Design, manufacture, and evaluation of prototype telescope windows for use in low-vision aids (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Young, L., Robertson, D., Love, G., Girkin, J., Cowie, E., Bourgenot, C., & Courtial, J. (2017, November). Design, manufacture, and evaluation of prototype telescope windows for use in low-vision aids. Presented at Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XX, San Diego, California

Pixellated Optics, a class of optical devices which preserve phase front continuity only over small sub areas of the device, allow for a range of uses that would not otherwise be possible. One potential use is as Low Vision Aids (LVAs), where they ar... Read More about Design, manufacture, and evaluation of prototype telescope windows for use in low-vision aids.

Focus-tunable and fixed lenses and stereoscopic 3D displays (Conference Presentation) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Banks, M. S., Johnson, P., Kim, J., Koulieris, G. A., Drettakis, G., & Gordon, L. (2017, April). Focus-tunable and fixed lenses and stereoscopic 3D displays (Conference Presentation). Presented at Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XII, San Francisco, California

Stereoscopic 3D (S3D) displays provide an enhanced sense of depth by sending different images to the two eyes. But these displays do not reproduce focus cues (blur and accommodation) correctly. Specifically, the eyes must accommodate to the display s... Read More about Focus-tunable and fixed lenses and stereoscopic 3D displays (Conference Presentation).

Varifocal virtuality: a novel optical layout for near-eye display (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aksit, K., Ng, R., Banks, M. S., Love, G. D., Lopes, W., Kim, J., Spjut, J., Patney, A., Shirley, P., Luebke, D., Cholewiak, S. A., & Srinivasan, P. (2017, December). Varifocal virtuality: a novel optical layout for near-eye display. Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technologies on - SIGGRAPH '17, Los Angeles

Augmented reality (AR) has recently gained momentum in the form of a variety of available optical see-through near-eye displays (NEDs) such as the Meta 2and the Microsoft Hololens. These devices are a big step forward towards Sutherland's vision of a... Read More about Varifocal virtuality: a novel optical layout for near-eye display.

Correlation wavefront sensing for extended objects (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Townson, M. J., Love, G. D., Kellerer, A., & Saunter, C. D. (2016, July). Correlation wavefront sensing for extended objects. Presented at Adaptive Optics Systems V., Edinburgh

Realtime wavefront sensing in a SPIM microscope, and active aberration tracking (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, J. M., Saunter, C. D., Bourgenot, C., Girkin, J. M., & Love, G. D. (2015, February). Realtime wavefront sensing in a SPIM microscope, and active aberration tracking. Presented at Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems, San Francisco, CA

Adaptive optics (AO) can potentially allow high resolution imaging deep inside living tissue, mitigating against the loss of resolution due to aberrations caused by overlying tissue. Closed-loop AO correction is particularly attractive for moving tis... Read More about Realtime wavefront sensing in a SPIM microscope, and active aberration tracking.

AO modal optimization in a live, beating zebrafish heart (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bourgenot, C., Taylor, J. M., Saunter, C. D., Girkin, J. M., & Love, G. D. (2013, June). AO modal optimization in a live, beating zebrafish heart. Presented at Imaging and Applied Optics Postdeadline, Arlington, Virginia, United States

We report on the combinated use of heart synchronization and wavefront sensorless modal AO to enable significant improvement in image quality of a live transgenic zebrafish embryo heart, imaged with a light sheet microscope.

An optical platform for the production, trapping, manipulation and visualization of ultra-low interfacial tension emulsion droplets (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hargreaves, A. L., Kirby, A. K., Bain, C. D., Love, G. D., Bolognesi, G., Ces, O., Neil, M., & Ward, A. D. (2013, August). An optical platform for the production, trapping, manipulation and visualization of ultra-low interfacial tension emulsion droplets. Presented at Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation X, San Diego, CA

We discuss the design, implementation and performance of a novel platform for the production and optical control of ultra-low interfacial tension droplets in the 1-10 micron regime. A custom-designed, integrated microfluidic system allows the product... Read More about An optical platform for the production, trapping, manipulation and visualization of ultra-low interfacial tension emulsion droplets.

Light sheet adaptive optics microscope for 3D live imaging (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bourgenot, C., Taylor, J., Saunter, C., Girkin, J., & Love, G. (2013, February). Light sheet adaptive optics microscope for 3D live imaging. Presented at Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XX, San Francisco, California, USA

We report on the incorporation of adaptive optics (AO) into the imaging arm of a selective plane illumination microscope (SPIM). SPIM has recently emerged as an important tool for life science research due to its ability to deliver high-speed, optica... Read More about Light sheet adaptive optics microscope for 3D live imaging.

Adaptive optical methods for in vivo imaging in developing Zebra fish (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Girkin, J., Taylor, J., Bourgenot, C., Saunter, C., & Love, G. (2012, December). Adaptive optical methods for in vivo imaging in developing Zebra fish. Presented at 2012 International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT 2012), Paris

The humble Zebra fish is rapidly establishing itself as the model of choice for a wide range of biological investigations, in particular at the developing embryo stage. Single Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) has already been shown to be a very p... Read More about Adaptive optical methods for in vivo imaging in developing Zebra fish.

Closed loop adaptive optics with a laser guide star for biological light microscopy (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Saunter, C. D., Bourgenot, C., Girkin, J. M., & Love, G. D. (2012, January). Closed loop adaptive optics with a laser guide star for biological light microscopy. Presented at MEMS Adaptive Optics VI, San Francisco, CA

We report on the development of a widefield microscope that achieves adaptive optics correction through the use of a wavefront sensor observing an artificial laser guide star induced within the sample. By generating this guide star at arbitrary posit... Read More about Closed loop adaptive optics with a laser guide star for biological light microscopy.

Wide field adaptive optics microscopy using both closed loop correction and image sharpness optimization (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bourgenot, C., Love, G. D., Saunter, C. D., & Girkin, J. M. (2011, July). Wide field adaptive optics microscopy using both closed loop correction and image sharpness optimization. Presented at Imaging and Applied Optics, Toronto, Canada

We report on results from a wide field microscope fitted with adaptive optics. We describe results based on both image optimization (wavefront sensorless adaptive optics) and full closed loop correction.

Adaptive optics for wide-field microscopy (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bourgenot, C., Saunter, C., Girkin, J., & Love, G. (2011, January). Adaptive optics for wide-field microscopy. Presented at Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XVIII, San Francisco, CA

We report on recent developments in the use of adaptive optics (AO) in wide-field microscopy to remove both system and sample induced aberrations. We describe progress on using both a full AO system and image optimization techniques (wavefront sensor... Read More about Adaptive optics for wide-field microscopy.

Heart synchronization for SPIM microscopy of living zebra fish (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, J., Saunter, C., Chaudhry, B., Henderson, D., Love, G., & Girkin, J. (2011, January). Heart synchronization for SPIM microscopy of living zebra fish. Presented at Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XVIII, San Francisco, CA

We describe work on producing a selective plane illumination microscope for cardiac imaging in zebra fish embryos. The system has a novel synchronization system for imaging oscillating structures (e.g. the heart) and will have adaptive optics for ima... Read More about Heart synchronization for SPIM microscopy of living zebra fish.

Extreme adaptive optics system optimization with the high order test bench (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vernet, E., Kasper, M., Vérinaud, C., Fedrigo, E., Tordo, S., Hubin, N., Esposito, S., Pinna, E., Puglisi, A., Tozzi, A., Basden, A. G., Goodsell, S. J., Love, G. D., & Myers, R. M. (2006, December). Extreme adaptive optics system optimization with the high order test bench. Presented at Advances in Adaptive Optics II