Tom Rutten
Postgraduate Student
| Location | Room G07, Oliphant Building |
| Phone | +61 8 8303 5037 |
| Fax | +61 8 8303 4380 |
| thomas.rutten@adelaide.edu.au | |
| Research Project | Sodium guide star laser for adaptive optics systems |
Research Interests
- High power solid state lasers
- Nonlinear optics
- Adaptive optics
- Optical CT scanners
Expertise
- Laser head design and construction
- Injection mode-locking
- Q-switching
- Laser resonators
- Laser diagnostics
- High voltage high bandwidth electronics
Recent Publications/Conferences
- T. P. Rutten, P. J. Vietch, C. d’Orgeville and J. Munch, “Injection mode-locked guide star laser,” Optics Express, submitted Jan 2007.
- T. P. Rutten, P. J. Veitch and J. Munch, “Development of a Sodium Laser Guide Star for Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems,” presented at the Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy, Rotorua, New Zealand, 5-9 Dec. 2005.
- T. van Doorn, M. Bhat, T. P. Rutten, T. Tran and A. Costanzo, “A fast, high spatial resolution optical tomographic scanner for measurement of absorption in gel dosimetry,” Australas. Phys. Eng. Sci. Med. 28 (2), 76-85, 2005
