{"id":1083,"date":"2020-06-01T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/optolab.pucv.cl\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2020-09-30T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:21:06","slug":"camilo-weinberger-assistant-of-the-optoelectronics-laboratory-the-multidisciplinary-work-has-been-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/en\/camilo-weinberger-assistant-of-the-optoelectronics-laboratory-the-multidisciplinary-work-has-been-challenging\/","title":{"rendered":"Camilo Weinberger, assistant of the optoelectronics laboratory: \u201cthe multidisciplinary work has been challenging\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Camilo Weinberger is a Graduate in Physics and Master in Science with mention in<br>Physics from the Physics Institute (IFIS) of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de<br>Valpara\u00edso, and has worked as an assistant of the optoelectronics laboratory of the<br>Electric Engineering School (EIE) of the Engineering Faculty of the PUCV for the past<br>years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From now on, we take his testimony taking part on the development of the research in<br>this field, through multidisciplinary work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How do get to work at the laboratory?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Camilo (C): <\/strong>It was from an invitation of professor Vera. He was collaborating with<br>professor Dar\u00edo P\u00e9rez, guide in my undergraduate thesis. During that time, professor<br>Vera was just starting at the laboratory, and was looking for some glasses he<br>requested from professor P\u00e9rez. I spoke to him, made some recommendations and<br>after talking, he asked me if I was motivated to do the montage. I was very interested,<br>and that turned out in an invitation to take part of the laboratory. I got to the laboratory<br>in 2018. I had been collaborating with professor P\u00e9rez in IFIS for around three or four<br>years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In what has consisted your work in the laboratory?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C: <\/strong>One of the first things was to make that montage and watching the functioning of the<br>devices it had. The professor was working on a montage that is called shack hartmann,<br>which allows you to measure the front of a light wave. It measures the phase. The<br>professor had acquired it not long ago at the Engineering (Faculty). He was<br>researching on adaptive optics. That was how we began to enter that area. The next<br>thing was programming a deformable mirror to make corrections of images in<br>telescopes. Everything else has been following the same work line, working with this<br>deformable mirror. Working directly with a computer neuronal network to make it learn<br>to recognize the different deformations of the light spread in space. It has been mainly<br>the testing of the networks, the optimal configuration for the montage that we are<br>developing, among other things. The montage consists in a deformable mirror and two<br>cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Have you had the chance to present the work done?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C: <\/strong>Yes. Everything began when the professor made a comment to me about an event<br>that was being made in Canada about engineering in extremely big telescopes, that<br>was done in Qu\u00e9bec. I took part of two events there; one, presenting a poster, at a<br>workshop of Universit\u00e9 Laval. The main subject was big observatories, and the<br>workshop was about laser work, techniques and new types of device that allowed the<br>acquisition of data in these big observatories. I spent a total of ten days in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are you working on now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C: <\/strong>We are working on a project that is about recognition of the Zernike modes, through<br>image acquisition and training of neuronal networks. Basically, the idea is to create a<br>shack Hartmann, but of a much lower cost. The shack Hartman is much more<br>consolidated. In our case, the algorithms are checked with MatLab, so it works properly<br>and it\u2019s fast. We test it to compare it. But the research evolver with a new idea. We got<br>a proposal from the Miami W.M Keck observatory, United States. They work with shack<br>hartmann and other kind of sensors there. The research we have is that the shack<br>works on real time, but if we talk about a minute order change sampling, what is<br>observed is that the surrounding can change a lot, or we waste the system by putting a<br>much more slower sensor and increasing the cost of the montage. The idea became to<br>take advantage of our work to generate an algorithm to predict how can a new<br>deformation generate in a few more minutes, so that the mirror doesn\u2019t have to deform<br>in an abrupt way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What kind of challenges implies working on a multidisciplinary way?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C: <\/strong>From a point of view from someone who comes from the outside, the language as<br>such was a little difficult. Despite sharing the focus in physics, in physics we were more<br>focused in education, the theory\u2026 Arriving at a laboratory where the data concern<br>(even though you still work, of course) is not primordial, but how you obtain it, was very<br>challenging. There were a lot of technicisms typical of the engineering ambit that I had<br>to learn. I was used to have a network and observe the data and there, the results.<br>Here, I had to slow down and go a Little backwards, to see how I have to acquire the<br>data. It is challenging, without a doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How do you outline yourself professionally in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C: <\/strong>I think that in research and enforcement. That motivated me to get to this laboratory.<br>In many IFIS level conferences when I was in undergraduate, the focus of my<br>exhibitions didn\u2019t have a lot of that. My professors had a perception that I was trying to<br>go to engineering, taking that path. At first it was uncomfortable. Regardless, I was<br>always interested in concept application: the need to explain something an taking it to<br>reality has always been important. It the engineering focus. Science has to do with<br>understanding, and engineering is much more about applying. I love to research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get to know more about the work on the optoelectronics laboratory and the<br>\nopportunities for the students, you can visit their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camilo Weinberger is a Graduate in Physics and Master in Science with mention inPhysics from the Physics Institute (IFIS) of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica deValpara\u00edso, and has worked as an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qommtrue.cl\/optolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}