FOAM News

  • New paper by Rob and collaborators:
    • R. P. Cameron, W. Löffler and K. D. Stephan “Theoretical proposal for the experimental realisation of a monochromatic electromagnetic knot”  J. Opt. 23 064006 (2021).
  • A research paper by Rob has made the front cover of Royal Society Open Science.
  • 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 and collaborators:
    • 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).
  • Huge congratulations to FOAM member Rob Cameron who has been awarded a prestigious 5 year Royal Society University Research Fellowship to investigate molecular chirality.
  • 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.
  • Documentary “Jeremy the Lefty Snail and Other Asymmetrical Animals” now online.
  • Seven new papers from Rob and collaborators 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.
    • J. P. Cotter and R. P. Cameron “Multi-path interferometry using single photons“ J. Phys. Commun. 3 045102 (2019).
    • 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).
    • R. P. Cameron and J. P. Cotter, “Hidden momentum of electrons, nuclei, atoms and molecules“, Phys. Rev. A, 97 042125 (2018).
  • An image from our Phys. Rev. A paper was chosen as a kaleidoscope:
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