Seminars

Seminars are held approximately every second Friday at 3:30pm.

Refreshments are served half an hour before the seminar in the SOLL coffee room, level 1, Applied Sciences Building, corner Burwood Road and Serpells Lane. There is an opportunity for attendees to meet the speaker at this time.

2010 Programme

Forthcoming Seminars:

Focussing, Aberration Correction and Enhanced Optical Sectioning in Microscopy

Monday 1 February 2010, 3:30 pm
EN101 (EN Building), Hawthorn.

There are many factors that influence the design of a confocal microscope.  Among these crucially is the method of achieving optical sectioning or confocal operation. High resolution imaging of thick specimens is also often detrimentally affected by specimen-induced aberrations that cause a loss in signal strength together with reduced resolution. Aberrations can be corrected using adaptive optics, where a deformable mirror, for example, introduces equal but opposite aberrations into the optical path.  We will discuss the design of a wave front sensorless adaptive system. We will describe such a system where the refocusing may be achieved remotely from the specimen at high speed without introducing spherical aberration that is common to other optical refocusing systems.

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2010 Programme