On Tuesday 30th July 2024, Prof Martin J Booth from University of Oxford, visited AOG. Title of his presentation was “Adaptive optics for high-resolution microscopy and photonic engineering”. Before and after the presentation, Prof Booth visited the AOG labs and discussed research results with the PostDocs and PhD Students.
Abstract: I will review recent work on using dynamic optical elements, such as deformable mirrors and spatial light modulators, to increase the capabilities of laser micro fabrication and optical microscopy. In particular, I will show how adaptive aberration correction and dynamic parallelisation can improve precision and reliability and increase the accessible volume and speed of these systems. Applications of our laser writing technology range from quantum optics, through radiation sensing to security marking of diamond gemstones. Our imaging methods include applications in cell biology, neuroscience and super-resolution microscopy.
Biography: Prof Booth is Chair in Optical and Photonic Engineering at the University of Oxford. His research involves the development and application of adaptive optical methods in microscopy, laser-based materials processing and biomedical imaging. In particular, his group have developed numerous implementations of adaptive optics for aberration correction in high and super resolution microscopes. He has held Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC Research Fellowships and in 2016 received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. He was appointed Professor of Engineering Science in 2014 and Chair in Optics and Photonics in 2023. In 2014 he was awarded the International Commission for Optics Prize. He is a fellow of SPIE, Optica, and the Institute of Physics. He has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, over twenty-five patents, and has co-founded two spin-off companies, Aurox Ltd and Opsydia Ltd.
Some print screens from his presentation can be found from page 17 in NETLAS Newsletter no 48.