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School of Chemistry & Physics
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA

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Telephone: +61 8 8303 5996
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 4380

Tom Rutten

Postgraduate Student

Location Room G07, Oliphant Building
Phone +61 8 8303 5037
Fax +61 8 8303 4380
Email 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