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Department
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Laser Physics
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Laser
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The experimental laser physics group comprises five academic staff, three post-doctoral fellows and sixteen postgraduate students. Laser facilities include a frequency stabilised cw titanium sapphire with 38W argon ion pump, a 300 mW 351 nm Ar-ion laser and a Mira fs laser with Verdi solid state pump.There are also two isotopic CO2 lasers and 15NH3 lasers, a hybrid CW/TEA CO2 laser, a 12W argon-ion laser and ring dye laser, two injection seeded Nd:YAG lasers with frequency doublers, triplers and quadruplesr, an unseeded Nd:YAG laser with frequency doubler and tripler, two dye lasers with SHG crystals and a Princeton Instruments intensified CCD camera, an imaging spectrometer with a liquid nitrogen cooled CCD detector, together with a wide range of ancillary equipment.
Other facilities include two rubidium magneto-optical atom traps, several optical tweezers setups, a scanning confocal optical system, liquid helium cryostats, various optical microscopes and single photon counting equipment. Activities of the group span the spectrum, from ultraviolet to microwaves, from high power pulses to single photons, with a mixture of fundamental and applied work and with an increasing emphasis on collaboration with biologists, geologists, and engineers. There are active collaborations with groups in Italy, Germany ,Sweden and the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.
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Staff Prof. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop Assoc. Prof. Norman Heckenberg Dr Andrew White Dr. Tim J. McIntyre Dr. Margaret Wegener |
Research
Staff Dr. Mark Fernee Dr. Marlies Friese Dr. Timo Nieminen |
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& MPhil students Alexis Bishop Troy Eichmann Michael Harvey Winfried Hensinger Nathan Langford Brad Littleton Ben Upcroft Robert Vogel Qing Wang Andrew Watt Jamie Warner Philipp Wicke |
Graduated
Research Students M. Newell (1992) A. Smith (1993) Tin Win (1993) R.G. McDuff (1994) S.J. Cooper (1994) C. Smith (1995) P.Barker (1996) D.Baleva (1997) A. Truscott (1997) R. Dykstra (1998) J. Malos (1998) A. Thomas (1998) M. Friese (1999) M. Wegener (2000) S. Bayoudh (2000) A. Rayner (2002) G. Kociuba (2004) |
Laser Flow Diagnostics - measurements in flames and flows using lasers
Recent publications of the Laser Physics Group are included in the Departmental Publication List
A description of research projects in Laser Physics is available. More information on postgraduate studies is available here.
Links to Interesting Activities in the Field of Laser, Quantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics.
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