题目：Photonics in Application, Research and Education: What might we learn from past experiences?

时间：2015年3月21日10: 30 – 11: 30

地点：光电工程学院三楼多功能厅

报告人：Prof. Brian Culshaw(Strathclyde University), President of SPIE

主持人：王义平教授靳伟教授

报告摘要

Abstract: Photonics is rapidly emerging from a specialist aspect of physicswith a few important but niche applications in imaging and communications toa wide ranging and increasingly important technological enabler. In thistalk we shall take a very brief look at the scientific principles underlyingphotonics, especially the ‘new’ photonics tools and then attempt tocharacterize the potential paths through which these principles may emergeinto real application.We shall use the experiences in fibre optic sensingas an example of how this happens but many of the principles discussed canmodified to apply to a wide range of emerging technologies. The overall aimin the talk is to highlight the diversity of skills and approaches necessaryfor success.

报告人简介

Brian Culshaw graduated from University College London with a BSc in Physicsand thereafter a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, specializingin microwave semiconductors, completed in 1969. He spent 1970 in the US asa post-doc at Cornell, joining the staff of the then Bell Northern Researchimmediately afterwards and evolving into microwave system design, especiallyfor long haul transmission.

He returned to UCL as a post doc after three years in Ottawa joining theacademic staff at UCL in 1975 thereafter developing an interest in fiber optics for sensing and measurement. With many co-workers, he produced somebasic results in the use of phase modulation in sensors and theinterferometric architectures to demodulate them. A sabbatical year withJohn Shaw at Stanford in 1982 gave an opportunity to contribute to basicresearch in fibre gyros. These interests in fiber sensing evolved intoapplications in ultrasonic, NDE, smart structures, advanced materialstechnologies, environmental sensing and MEMS. He has founded or co foundedthree small companies, of which two survive!

He moved to Strathclyde University in Glasgow in 1983 as professor ofoptoelectronics, and since then has also become involved in a number ofprofessional activities including multi partner national and internationalresearch project management, conference organisation and journal editing.His work with professional societies includes serving as President of SPIEduring 2007.