Author: Michael Hughes

If you work in a hardware lab then you will probably have encountered LabVIEW, the programming language from National Instruments. It is something of an … Read more

Rather than letting the year fizzle out, I chose to again spend the last few days before the Christmas break at the the British and … Read more

There is a fabulous initiative at the University of Kent called the ‘Kent Physics Centre’, a series of monthly (ish) evening talks covering all aspects … Read more

I made a short and rather unusual research trip recently to attend Fruit Focus, an industry event for the fruit industry in the UK. This … Read more

In the Applied Optics Group we’ve recently been working on ultra-thin, fibre optic distances sensors. The idea is to use low coherence interferometry, the concept … Read more

Several of us from the Applied Optics Group made the short trip to Discovery Park in Sandwich, East Kent, on 27th February for a Joint … Read more

This is a copy of a piece I wrote for the Physics & Astronomy Student Newsletter at the University of Kent.   If you’re mildly … Read more

A few years back I uploaded a collection of Matlab scripts to MathWorks that allowed for solving LP modes for step-index fibres. For those who … Read more

We’ve released ImageDisplayQT. This is an important part of our in-house GUI that we use with the various imaging and microscopy systems in my lab. … Read more

Meeting a goal for 2022, (just!) we have the first stable release of PyFibreBundle now available for download. This is a Python package for working … Read more