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Dr Chitralekha Avudainayagam
Dr Chitralekha Avudainayagam

BE, MTech, PhD, IISc India

Lecturer

Room No: 3.010

Office: Level 3, Rupert Myers Building (North Wing)

Phone: 9385 6106

Fax: 9313 6243

Email: c.avudainayagam@unsw.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities:

  • OPTM1105 Optics and the Eye 1 Course Authority
  • OPTM1205 Optics and the Eye 2 Course Coordinator
  • OPTM2105 Optics and the Eye 3 Course Coordinator
Research Description:

  • Design and development of an instrument to to study human vision using a partially coherent light field
  • Application of holography for the measurement and correction of human vision
  • White light interferometry to map the power profile of lenses.
Selected Publications:

  • Avudainayagam, CS & KV Avudainayagam. 2002. Designing lenses to correct peripheral refractive errors of the Eye. Smith, G & Atchison, DA, J. Opt.Soc.Amer.A, 19, 10-18.
  • Avudainayagam, KV & Avudainayagam, CS. 2003. Holographic multi-vergence target for the subjective measurement of the spherical power error of the human eye, Optics Letters, 28, 123-125.
  • Avudainayagam, CS & Avudainayagam, KV. 2003. Lau optometer : a new subjective instrument to measure the astigmatism of the human eye. Jl. of Modern Optics, 50,1801-1807.
  • Avudainayagam, KV & Avudainayagam, CS. 2003. Effect of partially coherent light on the subjective measurement of the ocular astigmatism of the human eye. Jl. of Modern Optics, 50, 1927-1935.
Other Professional Activities:

  • Member, Australian Optical Society
  • Member, Optical Society of America.