PhD15: Gopika Venugopal

Host: University of Kent, Applied Optics Group (AOG)

Secondments: Research Center for Materials Characterization and Non-Destructive Testing RECENDT GmbH 

PhD Project: Multiple bands swept source using a fast scanner and multiple emitters

Completed workshops, Seminars, and Conferences:

  • Optics and Photonics for Scientific Progress- Student Led, 13-04-2021 to 14-04-2021 , Poster presentation “Comparative study of Swept source designs using different tuning
  • 1st NETLAS Online Event, 01/07/2021, Oral presentation “Multiple bands swept source using a fast scanner and multiple emitters
  • 2nd NETLAS Event: Winter School, DTU, Denmark, 1-4th March 2022, oral presentation “Development of Swept source using galvo scanner spectral filter in the wavelength ranges 670 nm and 850 nm
  • Outreach- Discovery planet , Light Fantastic (hands on workshop to explore the amazing properties of light), 10/03/2022, Participated in the outreach event Light Fantastic by discovery planet and University of Kent for school kids ( hands on workshop to explore the properties of light) Ramsgate, Kent , UK
  • Prof Adrian Podoleanu Career Celebration, University of Kent, 26/05/2022, Poster presentation “Development of 850 nm Galvo Scanner based Swept Source for Full Field OCT”
  • NATS PGR Festival, University of Kent, 21/06/2022, poster Presentation “Development of 850 nm Galvo Scanner based Swept Source for Full Field OCT- further results”
  • 25th Congress of the International Commission for Optics (ICO), 05 – 09 Sep 2022, Dresden University of Technology – Germany, oral presentation “Development of a Swept Source Based on Galvo-Scanner/Resonant-scanner Spectral Filter in the Wavelength Range 850 nm”
  • 3rd NETLAS event: Autumn School, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDA), Germany4-7th October 2022, oral presentation “Dual resonance wavelength-tunable laser – an akinetic FDML-like swept source
  • NATS PGR Festival 2023, University of Kent, 20/06/2023, poster Presentation “Development of 850 nm Swept source based on a resonant scanner spectral filter”
  • European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, Munich,Germany, 28/06/2023, Poster presentation “Development of 850 nm Swept source based on a resonant scanner spectral filter”
  • 4th NETLAS event: NETLAS Conference in conjunction with Markus Pessa International Summer School “New Frontiers in Optical Technologies”, Tampere, Finland, August 7 – 11, 2023, oral presentation “Full Field Swept Source OCT with a Commercial Grade Camera and an In-House Developed Swept Source”

Publications:

  • R. Riha, A. Martinez Jimenez, G. Venugopal, M. Klufts, R. Huber and A. Podoleanu, “Dispersion-Tuned Mode-Locked Laser for Swept Source OCT At 850 Nm Using a cFBG and the Pulse Modulation Technique,” in IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 16, Issue 4, Aug 2024 10.1109/JPHOT.2024.3417829
  • Adrian Fernandez Uceda, Gopika Venugopal, and Adrian Podoleanu, ” Spatial distortions in swept source optical coherence tomography due to lateral scanning”, Optics Express, Vol. 32, Issue 13, pp. 22817-22836 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.520099

Education:

Master’s in Technology with specialization in Optoelectronics and Laser Technology from International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India (2018-2020). Master thesis work at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as a part of Erasmus Plus Exchange Programme (September 2019- June 2020).

Bachelor’s in Technology with specialization in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Toc H Institute of  Science and Technology under Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India (2013-2017).