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Register by 9th September 2010
UK
OPTICAL DESIGNERS’ MEETING
Thursday 16th September 2010
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre,
Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB
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Sponsored by:
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Culham Centre
for Fusion Energy
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Optical
Research Associates, USA
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In cooperation with:
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SPIE Europe
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EUROPE
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For further details please go to:
www.kaybeecommunications.co.uk/spec_event1.asp, www.kidger.com or
contact:
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Andy Wood,
Qioptiq Ltd.
Glascoed Rd.,
St Asaph, LL17
0LL, UK
Tel: 01745
588291
e-mail:
andy.wood@uk.qioptiq.com
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Tina E. Kidger,
Kidger Optics Associates, UK
European
Events Coordinator, ORA
Tel: 01684
575003
e-mail:
tina@kidger.com
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Schedule
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09:15
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Arrival and
coffee
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09:45
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Welcome
Morning
Session Chair: Tina E Kidger,
Proprietor, Kidger Optics Associates
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09:50
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Introduction to Culham Centre
Chris Warrick,
Communications Group Manager, Culham Centre for Fusion
Energy
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10:00
Plenary
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Seeing beyond skin in three dimensions
The Optics and Optical Design of a Gabor-Domain Optical
Coherence Microscope with Imbedded Liquid Lens
Jannick P. Rolland, The Brian Thompson Chair, Professor
of Optical Engineering
and Professor
of Biomedical Engineering,
University of
Rochester, Institute of
Optics
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10:50
Plenary
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Airy Beams and Gouy Phase; Are they only curiosities?
Applying recent advances in the science of beam
propagation
Kevin P.
Thompson, PhD, Vice President of Optical Engineering
Services, Optical Research Associates and Visiting
Scientist, University of Rochester, Institute of Optics
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11:30
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HARMONI - An Optical Design for a Work-horse First Light
Instrument for the European Extremely Large Telescope
David Freeman, Optical Design Consultant for Kidger
Optics Associates
Niranjan Thatte, Fraser Clarke, Matthias Tecza and the
HARMONI Consortium
Astrophysics Department, University of Oxford
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12:00 – 13:30
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Lunch and
Poster Session
A buffet lunch will be served at the venue, sponsored
by:
Optical Research Associates
Poster Papers:
Aberrations studies using ray tracing,
W. Powell, University of Oxford (UK)
Development of an Optical and Mechanical Model for The
Orion High Power
Laser,
Paul Jinks, AWE
plc, Aldermaston
Comparison of two 10 degree field Catadioptric designs
for sky survey,
Mehdi Bahrami, National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland
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12:45
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Lunchtime Presentation:
Optical Glass before (and after?) Schott
Kevin P.
Thompson, PhD
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Afternoon Session:
Afternoon Session Chair: Andy
Wood, Qioptiq Ltd.
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13:30
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Large Radiation Resistant Optics
Roger B
Huxford, RBH Optics,UK
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14:10
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Tolerancing Free-Form Optics for Illumination
Andreas
Timinger, PhD, OEC AG,Germany
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15:00
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Challenges to lens design for 17micron-FPAs in
8-12micron waveband
N. Schuster, J. Franks, Umicore (Belgium), Electro-Optic
Materials
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15:40
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Closing
remarks
Coffee
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16:00
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Tour 1:
European Jet Fusion Experiment
Tour 2: UK
MAST Experiment
Registration for both tours is required.
KayBeeCommunications will contact you to confirm your
participation.
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Registration and Contact:
The registration fee is £50.00. To register for the UK ODM event,
please visit
the
online registration.
The Culham Science Centre’s security regulations require that
all participants’ names and company names will be made known to the
centre before arrival. This will be done automatically once you
register.
On arrival, please visit the visitor reception where you will
receive your badge.
To assist our records for the future, we request that you please
sign the attendee list, when you pick up your name badge from the
table at the main entrance to the lecture theatre.
For questions regarding your registration, please contact:
KayBeeCommunications
63
Aldsworth Road
Victoria Park
Cardiff
CF5
1AB
Tel:
029 2040 4871
Email:
info@kaybeecommunications.co.uk
Attendee
Services:
Tea, Coffee and Lunch will be provided courtesy of Optical Research
Associates in the vicinity of the meeting room.
Notes for Authors:
The lecture theatre has a digital projector and a PC.
Presenters should bring their talks on a memory stick.
Posters:
Poster authors are advised to please bring their posters with them.
The maximum size per poster is 1 x 1 metre. Printers will NOT be
available for printing on the day of the meeting. Poster
Boards will be available for authors.
Accommodation:
Culham Science Laboratory recommends the following hotels in the
surrounding area. No rooms have been blocked.
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Abingdon (5 miles away):
The Upper Reaches
Travelodge
Abingdon Four Pillars
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Dorchester on Thames (4 miles away):
The White Hart
The George Hotel
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Oxford (~12 miles):
Four Pillars, Sandford on Thames
Four Pillars, Abingdon Road
or anywhere in the centre
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Location
and Directions:
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is based at Culham Science Centre in
Oxfordshire, about 50 miles west of London. The site is on the A415,
approximately nine miles south of Oxford and four miles east of
Abingdon. For information on public transport options, please
download the
timetable document; For international travel and driving
directions, please see the
Culham Science Centre
Information Page.
Postal address:
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon,
OX14 3DB, Oxfordshire, U.K.
Register now.
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