Overview
We study the propagation of light through thermal vapours placed in an external magnetic field.
We have particular expertise and interest in designing, building and characterising ultra-narrow atomic filters. The filters developed in our laboratory have the best recorded figures of merit
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If you are interested in joining the team or finding out more, please contact i.g.hughes@durham.ac.uk.
Papers of interest
- Laser spectroscopy of hot atomic vapours: from ’scope to theoretical fit D Pizzey, JD Briscoe, FD Logue, FS Ponciano-Ojeda, SA Wrathmall, I G Hughes New Journal of Physics 24 (12), 125001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac9cfe
- Voigt transmission windows in optically thick atomic vapours: a method to create single-peaked line centre filters JD Briscoe, FD Logue, D Pizzey, SA Wrathmall, IG Hughes Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 56 (10), 105403 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/acc49c
- Better magneto-optical filters with cascaded vapor cells FD Logue, JD Briscoe, D Pizzey, SA Wrathmall, IG Hughes Optics Letters 47 (12), 2975-2978 https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.459291
- Absorption spectroscopy and Stokes polarimetry in a 87Rb vapour in the Voigt geometry with a 1.5 T external magnetic field FS Ponciano-Ojeda, FD Logue, IG Hughes Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 54 (1), 015401 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/abc7ff
- Quantitative optical spectroscopy of 87Rb vapour in the Voigt geometry in DC magnetic fields up to 0.4 T J Keaveney, FS Ponciano-Ojeda, SM Rieche, MJ Raine, DP Hampshire, Ifan G Hughes Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 52 (5), 055003 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab0186
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Team members
| Name |
|---|
| Prof. Ifan Hughes |
| Dr. Dani Pizzey |
| Dr. Steven Wrathmall |
| Jack Briscoe |
| Sharaa Alqarni |