Day 2 of OptoInformatics 2012

A second day of OptoInformatics 2012 has come to a close after a nice dinner in the lovely Pugin Hall. The day started wet but we did get a glimpse of the Sun in the late afternoon. We enjoyed a day that started out with interesting talks on the eye, chromatic aberrations and excellent work on retinal imaging with adaptive optics, photoreceptor waveguiding and psychophysical impact of defocus and blurred vision. The afternoon linked back to OptoInformatics 2010 when Prof. Dainty talked about focusing of light through highly scattering media. Today Prof. Mertz discussed the optimal solutions and requirements to the number of active elements on a spatial light modulator and followed this up with wonderful movies taken into an egg showing blood flow and amplitude and phase contrast imaging with a fiber-based endoscope. The last talk of the day revisited holography and showed nice examples of 3-D images created simultaneously with several spatial light modulators. The football news that ended the day was a victory to England over a well-playing but slightly less effective Sweden. Don't miss out tomorrow where we will be hearing about optical tweezers and also get some thoughts about where optics might be moving in the coming years as Prof. Dainty looks into the crystal ball.