My new website!

I finally got round to finishing my website that explains what I do for my research! You can take a look at it here.

Optical Fibres in Eyes

Thanks to one of my students, Logan Hubbard, for telling me about how light is guided in mammalian eyes by Muller cells. The Muller cells act like little optic fibres to carry the light through layers of tissue to the photoreceptor cells without much light being absorbed along the way. Moreover, since light encountering a refractive index change tends to be reflected, the Muller cells also help minimize the reflection and hence loss of signal. I'm going to be talking about biophotonics later on in the semester, but this is very cool indeed!