UGLAS
University of Glasgow, UK
Optics groupWithin the School of Physics and Astronomy, the Optics group was highlighted both for the quality of its research papers and its esteem indicators. The group has an international reputation for its contribution to the fundamental understanding of light’s angular momentum, including conversion of optical tweezers to optical spanners, observation of a rotational form of the Doppler shift, an angular form of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, demonstration of a free-space communication link using high dimensional states and most recently the violation of Bell-inequality for OAM states. Hence the group's work on OAM uniquely spans, micromanipulation, classical and quantum features. The group has published over 200 papers in the world's leading scientific journals that have amassed nearly 5000 citations. Members of the group give around 10 invited talks at major conferences each year. The optics group comprises 3 academics, 4 post-docs and 8 PhD students.
Main tasks in the project: In Glasgow we are mainly concerned with the detection of OAM and it's storage in matter. We have a working magneto-optical trap for Rubidium atoms and are researching their interaction with light carrying OAM. We are also developing a modesorter based on a transformation of the transverse coordinates within a light beam which allows efficient detection of OAM in the classical as well as the quantum regime.
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