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Mathematical optics

Research collaborators

We welcome collaboration with other groups, and presently have strong ties with the following researchers and institutions:

Dr Philip Loveday - Sensor Science group, CSIR Materials Science and Manufacturing
Research: Static and dynamic control of intra-cavity laser beam shaping elements

Professor Elias Sidderas - Haddad, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Physics
Research: Laser pyrolysis for the generation of nano-structures of WOx and VOx

Professor Max Michaelis - University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), School of Physics
Research: Novel gas lenses

Professor Vladimir Belyi - Institute of Physics, Belarus
Research: Vortex beams

Professor Kamel Ait-Ameur - University of Caen, France
Research: Laser beam shaping for diode-pumped solid-state lasers

Professor Thomas Konrad, School of Physics, UKZN
Research: Quantum entanglement of photons carrying orbital angular momentum

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