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Prof. A.Gh Podoleanu Head of Applied Optics Group Professor of Biomedical Optics Ingram Building Rm.301 Telephone: 01227 823272 Fax: 01227 827558

Expertise

• Non-invasive imaging of the tissue, especially optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy;
• Optical sensing;
• Fast optoelectronics.

Teaching

• PG: PH888, Biomedical Optics;
• 8 lectures on confocal microscopy and optical coherence tomography within the MSc in Biomedical Imaging
• 2nd year: Optics and Electromagnetism II (PH504);
• 3rd year: Relativity, Optics and Maxwell's equations (PH604);
• Biomedical Optics (within the unit Medical Physics, PH513);
   

Biography

AP has joined the Applied Optics Group in January 1993 as a Tempus Fellow and then worked as a Research Associate since Sept. 1993. Up to 1992, he was associate professor in the Technical University Bucharest, Romania, where he taught Physics, Optics and optoelectronics and developed research on Lasers and fast optoelectronics. He was involved in Kent in research and development of a subnanosecond dwell time multichannel digital correlator (the fastest multichannel configuration), in distance measurements using white light interferometry, Faraday sensing and secure optical communications. Since 1995 he is been working in the optical coherence tomography (OCT) field for imaging eye and skin and flow characterisation. He contributed towards development of the en-face OCT imaging as a new technology to complement the more conventional longitudinal OCT imaging. For the first time, he generated dual OCT and confocal images of the retina. He is co-author of more than 150 journal papers and conference proceedings and of 13 patents on the above mentioned subjects. In 1984, he was awarded The Romanian Academy "Constantin Miculescu" prize for research in Lasers and Nonlinear Optics.

Some Recent Publications

• R. G. Cucu, A.Gh. Podoleanu, J. A. Rogers, J. Pedro, R. B. Rosen,
  "Combined confocal scanning ophthalmoscopy/en face T-scan based ultrahigh resolution OCT of the human retina in vivo". Optics Letters, Vol. 31, No. 11, June 1, 2006, 1684-1687. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?id=89811
  
   
• D. Merino, Ch. Dainty, A. Bradu, A.Gh. Podoleanu,
  "Adaptive optics enhanced simultaneous en-face optical coherence tomography and scanning laser ophthalmoscopy". Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 8, 2006, pp. 3345-3353. http://www.opticsexpress.org/ViewMedia.cfm?id=89322&seq=0
  
   
• M. E. J. Van Velthoven, F. D.Verbraak, L. A. Yannuzzi, R. B. Rosen, A.Gh. Podoleanu, Marc D. De Smet, "Imaging the Retina by En-Face.Optical Coherence Tomography".
  Retina-the Journal of Retinal and Vitreous diseases, 26:pp. 129–136, 2006
  
   
• H. Gnewuch N. N. Puscas D. A. Jackson A.Gh. Podoleanu "Improved method of phase detection scheme for displacement optic sensors" J. Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 8, No. 1, February 2006, 387-390
  
  All publications, peer reviewed papers and conference proceedings
   

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Basic FemtoStart Kit’s configuration correspond to 100, 50 or 20 femtosecond Ti : sapphire lasers. Optional configurations are also possible. FemtoStart kit has several advantages compared to fixed setups; e.g. repetition rates may be varied from 70 to 140 MHz. We recommend 5 W diode pumped solid state (DPSS) laser (Verdi from Coherent or Millenia from Spectra-Physics) as a pumping source, however any Ar-ion laser or diode-pumped solid-state laser with 3 – 5W output power will do the job.

Typical test data for Trestles 50 pumped by 3 Watt Ar-ion laser
Configuration: slit manual; Starter- button; Pump source – Ar -3W
Lens f = 100mm
Optics mirror set is Ga10.*
Output coupler Ca4.2 (720-918)
Crystal 10 mm Harkov
Pump power is Ppump(532 nm) = 2.5 W
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