Over 400 visitors to Explorathon 18 at Dundee Science Centre investigated how light is changing the way we look at biology and medicine. The Seeing Life through a New Light activities were delivered by group…
Congratulations go out to all our new graduates, especially to Laura O’Donnell BSc who was awarded the prize for the best BSc physics final year project. Laura’s project in the Optical Manipulation Group was supervised…
Visitors to Science Adventure at Cowdenbeath Leisure Centre on Saturday 2nd June enjoyed activities demonstrating light, microscopes, and optical trapping at our Seeing Life through a New Light event, as part of Fife…
Our recent publication “Light-sheet microscopy with attenuation-compensated propagation-invariant beams” has been highlighted in The Conversation. Dr Jonathan Nylk, the lead author of the study, was invited to write…
Congratulations to group member Adrià Escobet-Montalbán, whose TRAFIX project on imaging deeper within turbid media has been shortlisted for Scotland’s largest entrepeneurship award, the Converge Challenge. Adrià’s…
Our recent publication, “Towards automated cancer screening: Label-free classification of fixed cell samples using wavelength modulated Raman spectroscopy” from Journal of Biophotonics, has been featured in Advanced…
Kishan Dholakia, University of St Andrews, School of Physics & Astronomy, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife, is the 2018 winner of the Dennis Gabor Award in recognition of his work in optical beam shaping using dynamic…
Our recent paper in Journal of Biophotonics, Depth-resolved multimodal imaging: wavelength modulated spatially offset Raman spectroscopy with optical coherence tomography, is the Feature of the Week in OCT News. Check…
Over 900 visitors at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester on Saturday 15th July enjoyed activities including the “Orange juice challenge”, making pin-hole cameras, performing pepper-oscopies, and learning…
Professor Kishan Dholakia of this School has been awarded the Institute of Physics Thomas Young Medal and Prize for 2017. This prestigious award is for his “contributions to the field of optical micromanipulation using…
The precise wavelength of a laser is important in numerous applications, but measuring changes of wavelength to one part in ten thousand million has been quite demanding. Our group has invented a new technique for…
OSA journal, Optics Letters, turns 40 this year and as part of the celebrations they are compiling a list of their top 100 cited articles. Currently numbers 26-100 are listed here. Numbers 1-25 will be released later…