The Professor Titular title for Leszek Sałbut, BEng, PhD, DSc! Congratulations!!!

Professor Leszek Sałbut has been working at our university for 35 years. He has been lecturing and conducting research at the Faculty of Mechatronics. He is the Director of the Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics.

His first major engineering assignment was to develop the method of adjusting workshop wide-spectrum interferometers. He also worked on implementing them in the Optics Factory in Jelenia Góra and at the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion. Among others, he was engaged in such issues as attestation measurements of evenness benchmarks, enabling measurements with the uncertainty of measurement of 1/100 the length of light wave (cooperation with NPL, Great Britain).

For many years Sałbut has been conducting research on the development and applications of the method of thin-film interferometrics in experimental mechanics and material engineering. He has been cooperating with numerous international research institutes (Oxford University, Great Britain and Bremen Institute of Applied Beam Technology, Germany). He has developed the laser film extensometer for cyclic bearing measurements in cooperation with ITE Radom and UPT Bydgoszcz (for which he won the award of the Prime Minister). He has also developed innovative sensors with the use of film interferometric heads for monitoring strain in crucial points of large-scale engineering works. Among others, these sensors have been used to monitor signs of strain during the construction of the Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw.

Aside from his research on thin-film interferometrics, Sałbut has been developing high-sensitivity interferometric measurement methods, such as spot interferometrics, white light interferometrics and the unconventional double-beam interferometrics. His most prominent achievements include the development of an advanced measurement system for attesting measurements of the length of long standard plates of the K precision class. This advancement was implemented in the Central Office of Measures, and the effect of this implementation was the decrease in uncertainty of measurement of long plates to such an extent that the lower-grade laboratories, and consequently Polish industry, would not have to suffer higher costs of modelling them after other countries. The consequence was also that in regards to length metrology, Poland is among the most developed countries in the world.

Sałbut is a member of the Polish Society of Experimental Mechanics, a senior member of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (USA). He is the author and co-author of over 150 publications in scientific journals and conference materials.