Steve Sharples

Applied Optics : Steve Sharples

Where to find me

Generally located in the Tower, possible locations to find me:

• 202 - Applied Optics Research Lab - 84-67892
• 303 - ARRO-SAM Lab - 95-15638
• 307 - Nonlinear Lab - 95-15615
• 606 - Steve's Office - 95-15220
• 306 - O-SAM Lab/Ultrasound Labs foyer - 95-15386

Email: steve.sharples@nottingham etc

Mobile: 07976 706623

Things I do

• Sort out Optics lunches
• Laser ultrasonics expertise, and look after the Laser Ultrasonics Lab infrastructure:
  • O-SAM and ARRO-SAM instruments
  • SRAS (Spatially Resolved Acoustic Spectroscopy)
  • Ultrafast Lab (Richard Smith is the main researcher)
  • Nonlinear Ultrasonics lab (with Teti Stratoudaki)
• Some practical RF electronics expertise (Minicircuits stuff)
• Look after the scanning tank in Tower 201 (Main Optics Lab)
• Eagle/PCB Train expertise (see the Eagle PCB ->PCBTrain Export How-to and the section about installing Eagle using VPM)
• Look after the main optics Linux server ("armchair"), and the local Linux network, with help from Roger and Matt
• Laser Safety expertise, consultation and form-signing
• Look after the Linux off-site backups - see Steve or Roger for disaster recovery
• Look after the Epson AL-C3800 colour duplex printer in room 202
• Help maintain the Linux control and acquisition software, e.g.:
  • c_scan (Matt mainly wrote, Roger helps to maintain)
  • VXI-11 protocol for Linux (general communication ethernet-enabled devices such as oscilloscopes and arbitrary function generators)
  • Agilent Infiniium scopes
  • Tek scopes and AFGs
  • LeCroy scopes
  • BNS SLM (kernel driver written by Matt)
  • PI stages (kernel driver written by Matt)
  • Amplicon PCI230 DAQ comedi driver (mainly written by others)
• Look after the group laptop (now a Dell 12" jobbie running Windows XP)
• Look after the old group laptop, an Apple Macbook. The screen decided to spontaneously crack, and so it is now pensioned off for desktop duties (mainly video encoding). See Steve if you want to use it.
• Maintain the http://optics.eee.nottingham.ac.uk webpage