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.
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Posted 10/08/2017.
Congratulations to Dr Naomi McReynolds on the successful defence of her PhD thesis. Her thesis is titled “Advances multimodal methods in biomedicine: Raman spectroscopy and digital holographic microscopy”.
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Posted 21/07/2017.
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 shaped light fields in liquid, air and vacuum”.
The citation goes on to talk about Prof Dholakia’s “internationally acknowledged and distinguished reputation for his work … including new insights into the understanding of complex light fields and their propagation”.
School of Physics & Astronomy Press Release
Posted: 30/06/2017
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 doing such measurements based on the random scattering of laser light from a rough surface. This breakthrough could revolutionise the use of lasers in certain applications in quantum technologies and in healthcare.
Check out the article here: 10.1038/ncomms15610
University of St Andrews press release
School of Physics & Astronomy press release
Posted: 06/06/2017
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 in the year.
We are very pleased to note that our group leader, Prof. Kishan Dholakia, is featured on the list. The article, “Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner” is number 53, with 539 citations as of Jan 4th 2017 (Clarivate Analytics).
Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner
N. B. Simpson, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett
Optics Letters 22(1), 52-54 (1997)
doi: 10.1364/OL.22.000052
Posted: 31/05/2017
We have updated our social (academic?) media presence. Use the buttons in the menu on the left or check out the links below.
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Published: 17/05/2017
While citations are still the most recognised academic kudos, the growing use of digital media offers many different avenues for impact and dissemination of results. Altmetric tracks these alternative metrics to measure impact of publications. We are now adding Altmetric badges to our publication listings, hover over the badges for more information.
Why not check out our top 10 articles, currently ranking highest on Altmetric below.
Continue reading Alternative impact: Tracking our publications with Altmetric
Check out our new article, Rotational Dynamics and Heating of Trapped Nanovaterite Particles, at ACS Nano here.
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Published: 15/12/2016
Our recent article in Biomedical Optics Express (BOEx), Enhancement of image quality and imaging depth with Airy light-sheet microscopy in cleared and non-cleared neural tissue, was one of BOEx’s top 10 downloads of September.
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Published: 10/10/2016