Major Research Areas

 

The group's interests straddle optics, plasma physics, remote sensing, industrial applications and inverse methods.

 

We have a number of active international collaborations with laboratories in Italy (Consorzio RFX), Germany (Max Plank Institute of Plasma Physics, Greifswald), Korea (National Fusion Research Center) and Japan (JT 60U tokamak).  Most of these are built around our work in coherence imaging and plasma spectroscopy.

 

We have recently invented and patented a new type of quadrant coherence imager.   Recent results obtained with this instrument are reported here.

 

Coherence imaging	Inverse methods	Plasma spectroscopy
Industrial imaging	Laser based and microwave systems	Supersonic gas injector