Dr Graham Bruce

Senior Research Laboratory Manager

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3019

Email

gdb2@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Graham is Senior Research Laboratory Manager in the Optical Manipulation Group (www.opticalmanipulationgroup.com)

Graham's research covers a number of areas in the field of optics. He uses lasers to control and manipulate objects ranging from single atoms to micron-scale glass beads, to enable their use in quantum physics investigations. He also scrambles laser beams on rough surfaces and uses the resultant speckle pattern to perform metrology. Finally, he investigates methods of holographic laser beam shaping for a variety of applications.

In 2020, he was awarded the Silver Medal for physics at the prestigious STEM for Britain event.

PhD supervision

• Manuel Alberto Martinez Ruiz
• Hal Gee
• Ane Kritzinger
• Edward Appleton

Selected publications

• Open access

  Harnessing speckle for a sub-femtometre resolved broadband wavemeter and laser stabilization

  Metzger, N. K., Spesyvtsev, R., Bruce, G. D., Miller, B., Maker, G. T., Malcolm, G., Mazilu, M. & Dholakia, K., 5 Jun 2017, In: Nature Communications. 8, 8 p., 15610.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Single-atom imaging of fermions in a quantum-gas microscope

  Haller, E., Hudson, J., Kelly, A., Cotta, D. A., Peaudecerf, B., Bruce, G. D. & Kuhr, S., Sept 2015, In: Nature Physics. 11, 9, p. 738-742

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Optical hooks

  Dholakia, K. & Bruce, G. D., 22 Mar 2019, In: Nature Photonics. 13, p. 229-230 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

• Open access

  Overcoming the speckle correlation limit to achieve a fiber wavemeter with attometer resolution

  Bruce, G. D., O'Donnell, L., Chen, M. & Dholakia, K., 15 Mar 2019, In: Optics Letters. 44, 6, p. 1367-1370

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Femtometer-resolved simultaneous measurement of multiple laser wavelengths in a speckle wavemeter

  Bruce, G. D., O'Donnell, L., Chen, M., Facchin, M. & Dholakia, K., 1 Apr 2020, In: Optics Letters. 45, 7, p. 1926-1929

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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