Department of Physics

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Prof Gordon Love, B.Sc. Ph.D. F.Inst.P. C. Phys.


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Professor in the Department of Physics
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43696
Room number: 249

(email at g.d.love@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Responsibilities within department

I am head of the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation. Next year (Sept. 2012 onwards) I will be director of Education. I currently Chair the Teaching Review Committee and the Technical & IT Review Committee.

Teaching activity

I currently am the "opening act" for the freshers (Introductory Lectures on Foundations of Physics) and I run two L4 projects.

Research Interests

My research group designs and constructs instrumentation for large telescopes which the UK is involved with around the World. My general interests are in Optics and Photonics for a variety of applications including astronomy and bio-imaging. More specifically I work on adaptive optics, biophotonics, and vision science.

Research Groups

Department of Physics

  • Centre for Advanced Instrumentation

School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Adaptive Optics
  • Astronomical Technology
  • Biophotonics
  • Liquid Crystal Technology

Publications

Edited works: conference proceedings

  • Taylor, Jonathan M. & Love, Gordon D. (2010). On- and off-axis binding and induced circulation in counter-propagating beam traps. COMPLEX LIGHT AND OPTICAL FORCES IV SPIE, 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING.
  • Osborn, James, Myers, Richard M. & Love, Gordon D. (2010). Reducing PSF halo with adaptive pupil masking. ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS II SPIE, 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING.

Journal papers: academic

  • Thalhammer, Gregor, Bowman, Richard W, Love, Gordon D, Padgett, Miles J & Ritsch-Marte, Monika (2013). Speeding up liquid crystal SLMs using overdrive with phase change reduction. Optics express 21(2): 1779-1797.
  • Bourgenot, Cyril, Saunter, Christopher D, Taylor, Jonathan M, Girkin, John M & Love, Gordon D (2012). 3D adaptive optics in a light sheet microscope. Optics Express 20(12): 13252.
  • Taylor, Jonathan M, Girkin, John M & Love, Gordon D (2012). High-resolution 3D optical microscopy inside the beating zebrafish heart using prospective optical gating. Biomedical optics express 3(12): 3043.
  • Watson, Lynne M, Strang, Niall C, Scobie, Fraser, Love, Gordon D, Seidel, Dirk & Manahilov, Velitchko (2012). Image jitter enhances visual performance when spatial resolution is impaired. Investigative Ophthalmology \& Visual Science 53(10): 6004-6010.
  • Osborn, James, Wilson, Richard W., Dhillon, V.S., Avila, Remy & Love, Gordon D. (2011). Conjugate-plane photometry: reducing scintillation in ground-based photometry. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 411(2): 1223-1230.
  • Cargill, Matthew R., Sandford, Graham, Tadeusiak, Andrzej J., Love, Gordon D., Hollfelder, Nadine, Pleis, Frank, Nelles, Gabriele & Kilickiran, Pinar (2011). Highly fluorinated biphenyl ether systems as dopants for fast-response liquid crystal display applications. LIQUID CRYSTALS 38(8): 1069-1078.
  • Boruah, Bosanta R., Love, Gordon D. & Neil, Mark A.A. (2011). Interferometry using binary holograms without high order diffraction effects. OPTICS LETTERS 36(12): 2357-2359.
  • Silburn, Scott A., Saunter, Christopher D., Girkin, John M. & Love, Gordon D. (2011). Multidepth, multiparticle tracking for active microrheology using a smart camera. REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 82(3).
  • Young, Laura K., Liversedge, Simon P., Love, Gordon D., Myers, Richard M. & Smithson, Hannah E. (2011). Not all aberrations are equal: Reading impairment depends on aberration type and magnitude. Journal of Vision 11(13): 20.
  • Love, Gordon D., Kirby, Andrew K. & Ramsey, Robert A. (2010). Sub-millisecond, high stroke phase modulation using polymer network liquid crystals. OPTICS EXPRESS 18(7): 7384-7389.
  • Love, Gordon D., Hoffman, David M., Hands, Philip J.W., Gao, James, Kirby, Andrew K. & Banks, Martin S. (2009). High-speed switchable lens enables the development of a volumetric stereoscopic display. Optics Express 17(18): 15716-15725.
  • Keen, Stephen, Yao, Alison, Leach, Jonathan, Di Leonardo, Roberto, Saunter, Chris, Love, Gordon, Cooper, Jonathan & Padgett, Miles (2009). Multipoint viscosity measurements in microfluidic channels using optical tweezers. LAB ON A CHIP 9(14): 2059-2062.
  • Taylor, J.M. & Love, G.D. (2009). Multipole expansion of Bessel and Gaussian beams for Mie scattering calculations. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science, and Vision 26(2): 278-282.
  • Taylor, J.M. & Love, G.D. (2009). Optical binding mechanisms: a conceptual model for Gaussian beam traps. Optics Express 17(17): 15381-15389.
  • Osborn, James, Myers, Richard M. & Love, Gordon D. (2009). PSF halo reduction in adaptive optics using dynamic pupil masking. OPTICS EXPRESS 17(20): 17279-17292.
  • Taylor, J.M. & Love, G.D. (2009). Spontaneous symmetry breaking and circulation by optically bound microparticle chains in Gaussian beam traps. Physical Review A 80(5): 053808.
  • Taylor, J.M., Wong, L.Y., Bain, C.D. & Love, G.D. (2008). Emergent properties in optically bound matter. Optics Express 16(10): 6921-6929.

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