Research
Projects
Adaptive carbon-fibre mirrors for ELTs
Smart X-ray Optics
OSCA, a coronagraph for the WHT
Programming
Most of my programming/modelling is done using the MATLAB suite of
software. For finite element analysis (FEA) I mostly use COMSOL Multiphysics which has a useful crossover to MATLAB when required.
Examples of work with MATLAB.
Examples of FEA work.
Publications
Refereed
A nickel-carbon-fibre composite for large adaptive mirrors II: demonstrator system results, in preparation for Optics Express (2008).
A nickel-carbon-fibre composite for large adaptive mirrors: fabrication methods and properties, Optics Express Vol. 16, No. 2 (2008).
Results from the adaptive optics coronagraph at the WHT, MNRAS vol. 364, 4, 1203 (Dec 2005)
OSCA, an Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics,
PhD thesis, University College London (2004) - 10MB pdf file.
Conference proceedings, reports etc.
Towards a large, lightweight mirror for AO - Development of a 1 m Ni coated CFRP mirror, SPIE vol.7018 (2008)
Future high-resolution x-ray telescope technologies: prototype fabrication methods and finite element analysis, SPIE vol. 7011 (2008)
Large thin adaptive X-ray mirrors, SPIE vol. 6705 (San Diego 2007)
Active X-ray Mirror development at UCL: preliminary results, SPIE vol. 6721 (Chengdu, China, AOMATT 2007)
A Nickel-Carbon-Fibre Mirror for Large Adaptive Secondaries, Adaptive Optics: Analysis and Methods
OSA conference, Vancouver, 19 June 2007.
Developments in large adaptive carbon-fibre composite mirrors for ELTs,
poster presented at Towards the European ELT conference,
Marseille, 27 November 2006.
End of project report on Proof of Concept Research on Smart X-ray Optics, July 2005.
OSCA - The Coronographic Mask Device for NAOMI,
The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, issue no. 7, p.17-18 (Dec 2003).
OSCA, an Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics: Description and
first light, SPIE vol. 4839 (2003).
