Staff profile

• Astronomical optical instrumentation
• Hyperspectral imaging
• Single diamond point diamond turning
• Space optical instrumentation

Chapter in book

• Waiphara, P., Bourgenot, C., Compton, L. J., & Prashar, A. Optical Imaging Resources for Crop Phenotyping and Stress Detection. In Environmental Responses in Plants. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2297-1_18

Conference Paper

• Atkins, C., Brzozowski, W., Dobson, N., Milanova, M., Todd, S., Pearson, D., Bourgenot, C. J., Brooks, D., Snell, R. M., Sun, W., Cooper, P., Alcock, S. G., & Nistea, I.-T. (2019, December). Additively manufactured mirrors for CubeSats. Presented at Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems II
• Bourgenot, C. J., Calcines-Rosario, A. Z., DubbelDam, C. M., Sharples, R. M., Diaz, R., & Stephens, A. W. (2022, December). The LR-IFU for GNIRS at Gemini North : optical component manufacturing and metrology. Presented at Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation V
• Atkins, C., Brzozowski, W., Dobson, N., Milanova, M., Todd, S., Pearson, D., Bourgenot, C. J., Brooks, D., Snell, R. M., Sun, W., Cooper, P., Alcock, S. G., & Nistea, I.-T. (2019, December). Lightweighting design optimisation for additively manufactured mirrors. Presented at Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems II
• Paenoi, J., Bourgenot, C. J., Atkins, C., Snell, R. M., Todd, I., White, P., Parkin, K., Ryder, D., Kotlewski, R., McPhee, S., Chanchaiworawit, K., Chartsiriwattana, P., Laoyang, A., Kuha, T., Leckngam, A., Buisset, C., Rujopakarn, W., & Poshyachinda, S. (2022, December). Lightweight, aluminum, mirror design optimization for conventional and additive manufacturing processes. Presented at Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation V
• Stelter, R., Skemer, A. J., Kupke, R., Bourgenot, C., Martinez, R. A., & Sallum, S. S. (2022, December). Weighing exo-atmospheres: a novel mid-resolution spectral mode for SCALES. Presented at Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
• Skemer, A. J., Stelter, R., Sallum, S., MacDonald, N., Kupke, R., Ratliff, C., Banyal, R., Hasan, A., Varshney, H. M., Surya, A., Prakaesh, A., Sivarani, T., Sethuram, R., K.v., G., Fitzgerald, M. P., Wang, E., Kassis, M., Absil, O., Alvarez, C., Batalha, N., …Stone, J. (2022, December). Design of SCALES: a 2-5 micron coronagraphic integral field spectrograph for Keck Observatory. Presented at Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
• Stelter, R. D., Skemer, A., & Bourgenot, C. (2021, December). From colors to chemistry: a combined lenslet/slicer IFS for medium-resolution spectroscopy. Presented at Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets X
• Bourgenot, C., Calcines, A., & Sharples, R. M. (2018, December). New opportunities of freeform gratings using diamond machining. Presented at Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation III: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018, Austin, Texas
• Calcines, A., Bourgenot, C., & Sharples, R. M. (2018, June). Design of freeform diffraction gratings: performance, limitations and potential applications. Presented at Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation III: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018, Austin, Texas
• Young, L., Robertson, D., Love, G., Girkin, J., Cowie, E., Bourgenot, C., & Courtial, J. (2017, November). Design, manufacture, and evaluation of prototype telescope windows for use in low-vision aids. Presented at Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XX, San Diego, California
• Bourgenot, C., Crosby, D., & Robertson, D. (2017, January). Diamond machining of a single shot ellipsoidal focusing plasma mirror. Presented at Optics and Measurement International Conference 2016, Liberec
• Bourgenot, C., Robertson, D., Stelter, D., & Eikenberry, S. (2016, October). Towards freeform curved blazed gratings using diamond machining. Presented at Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Cowie, E. N., Bourgenot, C., Robertson, D., & Courtial, J. (2016, December). Resolution limits of pixellated optical components. Presented at Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XIX, San Diego, California
• Bharmal, N. A., Basden, A. G., Bourgenot, C. J., Black, M., Dubbeldam, C. M., Henry, D. M., Hölck-Santibanez, D., Morris, T. J., Robertson, D. J., Schmoll, J., Talbot, R. G., Younger, E. J., & Myers, R. M. (2016, July). CHOUGH: implementation and performance of a high-order 4m AO demonstrator. Presented at Adaptive Optics Systems V, Edinburgh
• Cowie, E., Bourgenot, C., Robertson, D. J., & Courtial, J. K. (2015, December). Progress towards building pixelated transformation-optics devices. Presented at Frontiers in Optics 2015, San Jose, California
• Taylor, J. M., Saunter, C. D., Bourgenot, C., Girkin, J. M., & Love, G. D. (2015, February). Realtime wavefront sensing in a SPIM microscope, and active aberration tracking. Presented at Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems, San Francisco, CA
• Bourgenot, C., & Robertson, D. (2015, December). Tool offset optimisation for the machining of free-form optics with a non-zero gradient at the centre. Presented at Optics and Measurement Conference 2014, Liberec, CZ
• Bourgenot, C., Taylor, J., Saunter, C., Girkin, J., & Love, G. (2013, February). Light sheet adaptive optics microscope for 3D live imaging. Presented at Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XX, San Francisco, California, USA
• Bourgenot, C., Taylor, J. M., Saunter, C. D., Girkin, J. M., & Love, G. D. (2013, June). AO modal optimization in a live, beating zebrafish heart. Presented at Imaging and Applied Optics Postdeadline, Arlington, Virginia, United States
• Girkin, J., Taylor, J., Bourgenot, C., Saunter, C., & Love, G. (2012, December). Adaptive optical methods for in vivo imaging in developing Zebra fish. Presented at 2012 International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT 2012), Paris
• Saunter, C. D., Bourgenot, C., Girkin, J. M., & Love, G. D. (2012, January). Closed loop adaptive optics with a laser guide star for biological light microscopy. Presented at MEMS Adaptive Optics VI, San Francisco, CA
• Bourgenot, C., Saunter, C., Girkin, J., & Love, G. (2011, January). Adaptive optics for wide-field microscopy. Presented at Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XVIII, San Francisco, CA
• Bourgenot, C., Love, G. D., Saunter, C. D., & Girkin, J. M. (2011, July). Wide field adaptive optics microscopy using both closed loop correction and image sharpness optimization. Presented at Imaging and Applied Optics, Toronto, Canada

Journal Article

• Graham, C., Bramall, D., Younus, O., Riaz, A., Binns, R., Scullion, E., Wicks, R. T., & Bourgenot, C. (in press). Steering Mirror System with Closed-Loop Feedback for Free-Space Optical Communication Terminals. Aerospace, 11(5), Article 330. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11050330
• Bourgenot, C., Krumins, V., Bramall, D. G., & Haque, A. M. (2024). Topology Optimization of a Single-Point Diamond-Turning Fixture for a Deployable Primary Mirror Telescope. Aerospace, 11(1), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11010050
• Graham, C., Girkin, J., & Bourgenot, C. (2022). Spectral index selection method for remote moisture sensing under challenging illumination conditions. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 14555. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18801-9
• Graham, C., Girkin, J. M., & Bourgenot, C. (2022). Integrated fiber optic spectrally resolved downwelling irradiance sensor for pushbroom spectrometers. Optics Express, 30(25), 45592-45598. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.477699
• Graham, C., Girkin, J. M., & Bourgenot, C. (2021). Freeform based hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing (FYMOS). Optics Express, 29(11), 16007-16018. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.425660
• Downes, L. A., MacKellar, A. R., Whiting, D. J., Bourgenot, C., Adams, C. S., & Weatherill, K. J. (2020). Full-Field Terahertz Imaging at Kilohertz Frame Rates Using Atomic Vapor. Physical Review X, 10(1), Article 011027. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.10.011027
• Wilson, R., King, M., Gray, R., Carroll, D., Dance, R., Butler, N., Armstrong, C., Hawkes, S., Clarke, R., Robertson, D., Bourgenot, C., Neely, D., & McKenna, P. (2018). Development of Focusing Plasma Mirrors for Ultraintense Laser-Driven Particle and Radiation Sources. Quantum Beam Science, 2(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs2010001
• Bourgenot, C., Saunter, C., Love, G., & Girkin, J. (2013). Comparison of closed loop and sensorless adaptive optics in widefield optical microscopy. Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, 8, Article 13027. https://doi.org/10.2971/jeos.2013.13027
• Bourgenot, C., Saunter, C. D., Taylor, J. M., Girkin, J. M., & Love, G. D. (2012). 3D adaptive optics in a light sheet microscope. Optics Express, 20(12), 13252-13261. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.20.013252