Magalie BONDU, Sophie CAUJOLLE, Catherine CHIN, Felix FLEISCHHAUER, Michael MARIA
6th – 8th of September
The Applied Optics Group of the University of Kent organised the 2nd Canterbury Conference on Optical Coherence Tomography (2CCOCT) with emphasis on broadband optical sources from the 6th to the 8th of September. 2CCOCT was an international conference with a total of 49 oral presentations and 10 poster presentations. Speakers came from all over the globe, covering countries like Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Switzerland. The 49 oral presentations are divided into 13 student presentations, 15 invited speakers, 2 industry forums and 19 established researcher presentations. The conference was split into 13 different sessions, each covering a different area of research regarding broadband sources and / or imaging such as optical coherence tomography. The conference got sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), NKT Photonics, Superlum, the University of Kent, santec, Thorlabs and the Marie Curie actions. The OSA Student Chapter of the University of Kent also participated throughout the conference with a variety of different events. They organised a social event on Wednesday evening for all conference participants, a student social event on Thursday morning and rewarded three early stage researchers for their excellent presentations.
All the UBAPHODESA students presented some of their work throughout the conference days. Sophie’s presentation was titled “Assessing embryo development using swept source optical coherence tomography”, Michael’s presentation title was “Analysis of supercontinuum noise for shot-noise limited detection in ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography at 1300 nm”. Catherine’s presentation had the title ”Polarization extinction and noise characterization of a commercial supercontinuum source”. Magalie’s presentation title was “Compact multispectral photoacoustic microscopy and optical coherence tomography system using a single light source for tissue imaging” and Felix presented work with the title “Impact of absorption in the top layer of a two layer sample on spectroscopic spectral domain interferometry”.
The UBAPHODESA students would like to congratulate, Sophie Caujolle (University of Kent / NKT Photonics) (3rd), Mikkel Jensen (DTU) (2nd) and Danielle Harper (Med. Univ. of Vienna) (1st) for winning the best oral presentation prizes.
Links:
2CCOCT: http://2ccoct.aogkent.uk/
AOG: https://www.kent.ac.uk/physical-sciences/research/aog/index.html
EPSRC: https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/
NKT Photonics: http://www.nktphotonics.com/
Superlum: https://www.superlumdiodes.com/
University of Kent: https://www.kent.ac.uk/
Thorlabs: https://www.thorlabs.com/
Marie Curie actions: https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/
OSA Student Chapter: http://osakent.osahost.org/