Steve Sharples
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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 Ultrasound Labs infrastructure
- 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)
- Maintain the http://optics.eee.nottingham.ac.uk webpage