Applications

The industry-orientated research at CAPPA aims at providing photonics – based solutions to companies in a wide range of sectors. The activities span from collaborations with photonics companies looking for assistance in designing or understanding the physics of a new product to companies in sectors such as pharma, food manufacturing where photonics can offer powerful methods for quality analysis and process monitoring. Many of these solutions are based around spectroscopy, imaging and microscopy, sensing and detection, process monitoring, data analytics and optical and illumination.

Industry Applications

Spectroscopy

  • Fluorescence Detection
  • Time – Dependent Change Analysis
  • Structural Changes in Materials
  • Raw Ingredient Characterization
  • Failure Mechanism Exploration
  • Polymer Analysis
  • Hyperspectral Imaging
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Imaging and
Microscopy

  • Inspection
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy
  • Polarized Light Imaging
  • Defect Analysis
  • Contamination Identification
  • Raman Imaging
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Sensing and
Detection

  • Fibre – Based Sensing
  • Trace Gas Sensing
  • Sensors for Machine Vision and Inspection
  • Sensors for Biomedical Applications
  • Optical Sensing
  • Detection of Concentrations
  • Environmental Monitoring
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Process Monitoring

  • In – line monitoring of moisture levels
  • In – line monitoring of blend uniformity
  • Online monitoring of rinse samples for cleaning verification
  • Development of process automation to remove manual inspection
  • Ingredient tracking in production processes
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Data Analytics

  • Contamination Analysis
  • Industrial Process Analysis
  • Optimisation
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Multivariate Curve Resolution
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Optical Design

  • Lens Design
  • Imaging and Detection System design
  • Laser optics
  • Optical fibre systems
  • Physical Phenomena modelling
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