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UK OPTICAL DESIGN MEETING

Thursday 15th September 2016

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell, Oxfordshire
 

08:45	Arrival and coffee
09:15	Welcome: Tina E. Kidger, Proprietor, Kidger Optics Associates and Andy Wood, Qioptiq Ltd Morning Session Chair: Tina E. Kidger
09:20 Plenary	The Giant Magellan Telescope: A 21st Century Mega-Project, and its Integrated Optical Systems Andrew Rakich, Optics Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) 265 N. Halstead St., Pasadena, CA 91107, USA
10:00	Effect on optical properties of coatings and glass exposed to space environment. Modelling of optical properties behavior. Marianela Fernádez-Rodriguez Laboratorio de Instrumentación Espacial – LINES, Área de Instrumentación Óptica Espacial Dpto. de Cargas Útiles y Ciencias del Espacio INTA, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz - Madrid - SPAIN
10:30	Coffee Break
10:50	Characterization of diffraction grating scattering in UV and IR for space Applications Quentin Kuperman Light Tec, Pôle d'activités Hyérois, 1128, route de Toulon, 83400 Hyères, France
11:20	Modelling of diffracted stray light in solar coronagraphs and heliospheric imagers Kevin Middleton, Jackie Davies, Ian Tosh, James Tappin Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , UK
11:50	The challenge of optical filter glass production and the trend to miniaturization Ralf Biertümpfel Optical Filter Advanced Optics, Schott Advanced Optics, Germany
12:20	Presentation of 2016 Kidger Scholarship Award to: "Yunfeng Nie," Vrije Universiteit, Brussel Tina Kidger Kidger Optics Associates
12:35	BUFFET LUNCHEON, sponsored by: Optical Solutions Group, Synopsys Inc. USA Poster Session Anastigmatic ophthalmic lens design Milena Nikolic Advanced Optics CeDInt-UPM, Madrid Two tailored freeform surfaces for specialty imaging applications Yunfeng Nie, Hugo Thienpont, and Fabian Duerr Brussels Photonics Team, Department of Applied Physics and Photonics Vrije Universiteit Brussel Irradiance Tailoring for Extended Sources in 3D by Implicit Integral Equation Solution Adam Hirst OSRAM & UPM, Madrid, Spain
13:35	Afternoon Session Introduction Chair: Andy Wood Qioptiq Ltd, Denbighshire
13:40 Plenary	Nodal Aberration Theory: The Legacy of Kevin Thompson and Roland Shack John R Rogers Synopsys Inc, USA
14:20	The evolution of infrared countermeasures systems is underpinned by optical engineering and manufacturing innovation Graham Jeffrey Leonardo Airborne and Space Systems Division, UK
14:50	Coffee Break
15:10	Multichannel optics for imaging and nonimaging applications Pablo Benítez, Juan C. Miñano, Milena Nikolic (presenter) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Cedint, Campus de Montegancedo UPM, 28223 Madrid, Spain
15:40	Computational imaging for extreme fields of view and depth of field in microscopy Andy Harvey, Guillem Carles, Pavan Konda, Jonathan Taylor, Paul Zammit and Yongzhuang Zhou University of Glasgow, Scotland
16:10	Closing Remarks Andy Wood Qioptiq Ltd

Sponsored by:  

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell, Oxfordshire

Synopsys - Optical Solutions Group

SPIE EUROPE – UKODM Cooperating Organisation

 

For further details please contact:

Tina Kidger, Kidger Optics Associates

European Events Consultant
Synopsys - Optical Solutions Group

Tel: 01684 575003

e-mail: tina@kidger.com

Andy Wood, Qioptiq Ltd.

Glascoed Rd., St. Asaph, LL17 0LL, UK

Tel: 01745 588291

e-mail: andy.wood@uk.qioptiq.com

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