Mr Emmanounil Alexakis has begun a four-year PhD project on the theory and experimental demonstration of Rayleigh optical activity, supported by the Royal Society and ESPRC.
New paper by Rob:
R. P. Cameron, U. Vogl and N. Trautmann “Interference-contrast optical activity: a new technique for probing the chirality of anisotropic samples and more” R. Soc.Open Sci. 7 192201 (2020).
Welcome to 3rd year student Emmanouil Alexakis who was awarded an EPSRC Vacation Bursary to work in the FOAM group over summer.
We had a great time at ICOAM19 presenting our invited talks on “Novel ‘standing waves’ and their applications” and “Control of Spatially Rotating Solutions in a Kerr Cavity” and our poster on “Designing fully-structured light for chiroptical interactions”.
Congratulations to FOAM member Christopher Gibson who successfully defended his thesis in May with external examiner Assoc. Prof. Fabio Biancalana and internal examiner Dr. Aidan Arnold.
Seven new papers from Rob as part of a research project grant funded by The Leverhulme Trust:
V. Marichez, A. Tassoni, R. P. Cameron, S. M. Barnett, R. Eichorn, C. Genet and T. M. Hermans “Mechanical chiral resolution“ Soft Matter (2019) – IN PRESS.
R. P. Cameron “Using a black hole to weigh light: can the Event Horizon Telescope yield new information about the photon rest mass?” Res. Notes AAS 3 34 (2019) – MADE TOP 10 MOST READ LIST.
K. C. van Kruining, R. P. Cameron and J. B. Goette “Superpositions of up to six plane waves without electric-field interference” Optica 5 1091 (2018).
R. P. Cameron and N. MacKinnon, “Linear Rayleigh and Raman scattering to second order: analytical results for light scattering by any scatterer of size $k_0d\lesssim1/10$“, Phys. Rev. A 98 013814 (2018).
R. P. Cameron and J. P. Cotter, “Relativistic properties of a molecule: energy, linear momentum, angular momentum and boost momentum to order $1/c^2$“, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 51 105101 (2018).
An image from our Phys. Rev. A paper was chosen as a kaleidoscope:
Our first publication as part of a research project grant funded by The Leverhulme Trust: C. J. Gibson, P. Bevington, G.-L. Oppo and A. M. Yao, “Control of polarization rotation in nonlinear propagation of fully structured light“, Phys. Rev. A, 97, 033832 (2018).
