Professor John Sheridan BE, MSc EE, DPhil.
Research Interests:
- Fundamentals of optics and the electromagnetic theory of diffraction.
- Optical Signal Processing, including applications of the Wigner Distribution Function and the Fractional Fourier and Linear Cannonical Transforms.
- Optical encryption.
- Surface relief diffraction gratings and refractive melted microlens arrays.
- Holographic materials, photopolymers, holographic optical elements and holographic data storage.
- Optical fiber Bragg grating sensors.
- Optical metrology including confocal microscopy, holographic interferometry and speckle photography and interferometry.
- Solar light concentrators and energy conversion.
- Optoelectronics and applied optical engineering.
- Fast numerical algorithms for the design and analysis of optical systems.
Research Projects:
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) Title : Performance Improvement of Photopolymer Material by Chain Transfer Agents Start Date / End Date : 01-JUL-10 / 30-JUN-13 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : "Digital Holographic Microscopy: Putting cells in perspective" at SPIE¿s Optics and Photonics conference 2009 Start Date / End Date : 03-AUG-09 / 31-JAN-11 |
| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : Equipment for Underlying Grant Start Date / End Date : 01-DEC-06 / 31-DEC-08 |
| Sponsor : Bayer Ltd Title : Photopolymer Materials Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-08 / 31-AUG-09 |
| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : Advanced Biomimetic Materials for Solar Energy Conversion Start Date / End Date : 01-DEC-07 / 30-NOV-10 |
| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : Digital holographic microscope for real-time multispectral imaging and pattern classification of biological cells Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-08 / 31-AUG-11 |