Prof. Vincent Toal
Centre Director
Department of Industrial and Engineering optics
Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
Professor Vincent Toal is the Director of the Centre for Industrial and Engineering optics. He holds a BSc in Experimental Physics (1968, UCD) an MSc in Optoelectronics (1969, QUB) and a PhD in Electronic Engineering (1976, Surrey). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and has over 40 years research experience in applied optics. He has supervised 11 MSc and MPhil graduates by research, and 8 PhD graduates. He has published 60 journal papers, 6 patent applications, 3 book chapters and 1 textbook. Professor Toal was Vice-Chair of COST P8 Materials and Systems for Optical Data Storage and Processing and Manager of the STSM programme in COST MP0604 Optical Micro-Manipulation by Nonlinear Nanophotonics. He is currently manager of the STSM programme in COST MP1205 Advances in Optofluidics: Integration of Optical Control and Photonics with Microfluidics.
Research Interest
Holographic Optics,Photopolymerization
Publications
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Recording of high efficiency volume Bragg gratings in a photopolymer using diffraction from very weak pre-recorded gratings
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Holographically Recorded Low Spatial Frequency Volume Bragg Gratings and Holographic Optical Elements
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Application of phase shifting electronic speckle pattern interferometry in studies of photoinduced shrinkage of photopolymer layers
