Making use of laser speckle
Measurement of wavelength using laser speckle Prof. Kishan Dholakia School of Physics and Astronomy Light is a wave and it is well known waves can interfere creating patterns with constructive (bright) and destructive…
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Millimetre antennas
Dr Graham Smith & Dr Duncan Robertson | Millimeter Wave & EPR Group, School of Physics & Astronomy Horn antennas at microwave, mm-wave and terahertz frequencies are commonly used in high performance radars, radiometers…
Single pixel imaging
Dr Michael Mazilu School of Physics & Astronomy An image is worth a thousand words. This statement holds not only true in every day life but even more so in science.
Light Box – bringing together culture and science
Light Box celebrates light in all its aspects – solar, sacred, scientific, nourishing, and poetic. Produced as a result of meetings between Professor Crawford and McBeath and contemporary physicists whose work centres…
Applied photonics in the Southern Ocean
So why did I, a physicist who is most at home in the darkened, well-controlled confines of a laser laboratory, find myself dressed in high-viz clothing climbing aboard a big orange ship in Tasmania in January 2016…
New research uses bioluminescent jellyfish as optical engineers
Researchers at St Andrews have produced the world’s first solid-state protein lasers, capable of record performance and some capable of self-assembly, by harnessing the optical engineering skills of bioluminescent…
Novel microscope for biological imaging
A new form of ‘light sheet imaging’, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team led by Professor Kishan Dholakia and Dr Tom Vettenburg of the School of Physics.
“Sticking plaster” treatment for skin cancer and acne
A wearable light source that can treat many skin cancers and acne has been invented by Professor Ifor Samuel (School of Physics and Astronomy) working with Professor James Ferguson (Ninewells Hospital, Dundee) in…