Our research facilities are located in modern purpose built laboratories. These contain extensive laser, optics, computing, electronic manufacture and rapid prototyping equipment.
Photonics Laboratory
A state of the art research laboratory where we are active in
- Fluorescence Microscopy
- Lifetime measurements
- Laser and Micro fabrication
- Colour Image Processing
A fully equipped optics lab which contains
- Four vibration isolated optical tables
- High powered pulsed diode lasers for fluorescence
- Nd+3:YAG lasers
- 4 axis piezo and stepper controlled stages.
- Numerous He-Ne and diode lasers
- Several 'state of the art' liquid crystal spatial light modulators for the production of dynamic computer generated holograms and correlation filters
- CCD based beam visualisation system
- Many micro-positioning translation stages, extensive array of optical equipment, photo-refractive materials, fibre-optic micro-positioners, significant instrumentation and measurement systems
- Exitech excimer laser micro-machining system, (pictured).
Informatics and Computer Vision Laboratory
This is a computer and electronics laboratory that is heavily involved in computer vision research and information processing among other areas such as:
- Biometrics. For example iris recognition systems
- Medical image processing
- Scene activity tracking
- Human and ridged body tracking
- Speech processing
- Communications networks
- Optical Modeling such as laser cavity systems; computer generated holograms and Zemax optical design
- Forensic computer analysis
- Neural networks
- Correlation filter design
It contains:
- A 25+ PCs and Mac workstations
- Labview/Matlab and data acquisition cards
- DSP development kits
- CCD and CMOS IP cameras
- Various optimised object illumination light sources
- Anti-static electronic test and build facilities.
Mathematical modelling is often carried out using: MATLAB [Toolboxes: Image processing, Computer Vision, Fuzzy logic, Neural networks, Optimisation, Signal processing etc]; Labview with image processing and measurement software; or compilers and code development IDEs.