Search Results - "Hughes, I. G."
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Creating Complex Optical Longitudinal Polarization Structures
Published in Physical review letters (20-04-2018)“…In this Letter, we show that it is possible to structure the longitudinal polarization component of light. We illustrate our approach by demonstrating linked…”
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Collective Lamb Shift of a Nanoscale Atomic Vapor Layer within a Sapphire Cavity
Published in Physical review letters (15-06-2018)“…We measure the near-resonant transmission of light through a dense medium of potassium vapor confined in a cell with nanometer thickness in order to…”
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Single-Photon Interference due to Motion in an Atomic Collective Excitation
Published in Physical review letters (22-06-2017)“…We experimentally demonstrate the heralded generation of bichromatic single photons from an atomic collective spin excitation (CSE). The photon arrival times…”
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Cooperative Lamb shift in an atomic vapor layer of nanometer thickness
Published in Physical review letters (23-04-2012)“…We present an experimental measurement of the cooperative Lamb shift and the Lorentz shift using a nanothickness atomic vapor layer with tunable thickness and…”
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Laser spectroscopy of hot atomic vapours: from ’scope to theoretical fit
Published in New journal of physics (01-12-2022)“…Abstract The spectroscopy of hot atomic vapours is a hot topic. Many of the work-horse techniques of contemporary atomic physics were first demonstrated in hot…”
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Optical Transmission of an Atomic Vapor in the Mesoscopic Regime
Published in Physical review letters (22-03-2019)“…By measuring the transmission of near-resonant light through an atomic vapor confined in a nanocell we demonstrate a mesoscopic optical response arising from…”
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An intuitive approach to structuring the three electric field components of light
Published in New journal of physics (30-01-2019)“…This paper presents intuitive interpretations of tightly focused beams of light by drawing analogies with two-dimensional electrostatics, magnetostatics and…”
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Excitation of knotted vortex lines in matter waves
Published in New journal of physics (13-06-2016)“…We study the creation of knotted ultracold matter waves in Bose-Einstein condensates via coherent two-photon Raman transitions with a Λ level configuration…”
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Optical response of gas-phase atoms at less than λ/80 from a dielectric surface
Published in Physical review letters (27-06-2014)“…We present experimental observations of atom-light interactions within tens of nanometers (down to 11 nm) of a sapphire surface. Using photon counting we…”
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Four-wave mixing in a non-degenerate four-level diamond configuration in the hyperfine Paschen-Back regime
Published in Journal of modern optics (30-03-2018)“…We present an experimental study of seeded four-wave mixing (4WM) using a diamond excitation scheme (with states from the and terms) in a thermal vapour of…”
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Maximal refraction and superluminal propagation in a gaseous nanolayer
Published in Physical review letters (07-12-2012)“…We present an experimental measurement of the refractive index of high density Rb vapor in a gaseous atomic nanolayer. We use heterodyne interferometry to…”
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Non-linear Sagnac interferometry for pump-probe dispersion spectroscopy
Published in The European physical journal. D, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics (01-12-2003)Get full text
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Reconstruction of a Cold Atom Cloud by Magnetic Focusing
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Selective Reflection of Potassium Vapor Nanolayers in a Magnetic Field
Published in Journal of experimental and theoretical physics (01-03-2018)“…The selective reflection of laser radiation from the interface between a dielectric window and the atomic vapors confined in a nanocell of thickness L ≈ 350 nm…”
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Refractive index measurements by probe-beam deflection
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Models and Representation
Published in Philosophy of science (01-12-1997)“…A general account of modeling in physics is proposed. Modeling is shown to involve three components: denotation, demonstration, and interpretation. Elements of…”
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Modulation-free pump-probe spectroscopy of strontium atoms
Published in The European physical journal. D, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics (01-04-2010)“…We have performed polarization spectroscopy on the 5s 2 1 S 0 →5s5p 1 P 1 transition of atomic strontium. The signal is generated by saturation effects,…”
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A longitudinal study of low back pain in student nurses
Published in International journal of nursing studies (01-06-1993)“…Results from a longitudinal study of low back pain in 199 student nurses followed up for 20 months show that 37% reported back pain which lasted for at least 3…”
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Manipulation of cold atoms by an adaptable magnetic reflector
Published in Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics (01-05-2000)“…Adaptive optics for cold atoms has been experimentally realized by applying a bias magnetic field to a static magnetic mirror. The mirror consist of a…”
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Propagation of cold atoms along a miniature magnetic guide
Published in Physical review letters (14-02-2000)“…A cloud of laser-cooled 85Rb atoms is coupled through a magnetic funnel into a miniature waveguide formed by four current-carrying wires embedded in a silica…”
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