Quantum optics group photo Mar 2023

Quantum Optics Group  (December 2023)

Head of Quantum Optics Group

Friedrich  Koenig   Dr Friedrich König
 

Postdoctoral Researchers

Pavlos Manousiadis Dr Pavlos Manousiadis
email: pm84
› Creation of curved space-time analogues in optical fibres
› Observation of Quasi Normal Modes
Sangshin Park Dr Sangshin Park
email: sp319
› Backreaction in analog gravity system: optical soliton
› Second-order dynamics of effective spacetime in analog gravity

PhD Students

Christopher Burgess Christopher Burgess
email: cdb23
› Analogue black hole oscillations in optical solitons
› Quantization of quasi-normal modes in dispersive media
Andleeb Zahras Andleeb Zahra
email: az65
› Experimental observation of classical and quantum behaviour of quasinormal modes of solitons.

Former Postdoctoral Researchers

Jack Petty Dr Jack Petty
 
› Quantum vacuum emission in a nonlinear medium
› Modeling of quantum vacuum emission in bulk
› Experimental observation of scattering at the event horizon
Maxime Jacquet Dr Maxime Jacquet
 
› Quantum vacuum emission in a nonlinear medium
› Modeling of quantum vacuum emission in bulk
› Experimental observation of scattering at the event horizon
  Dr Susanne Kehr › Transformation Optics
› Few-cycle Pulses in Fibres
› Cherenkov Radiation
› Photonic crystal fiber modeling
  Dr Christopher Kuklewicz › Frequency shifting at the event horizon
› Coincidence detection

Former PhD Students & Undergraduate Students

Dr Jack Petty Dr Jack Petty
PhD title???
20XX-20XX
now: Posdoctoral Fellow, University of St Andrews
Dr Ian Shand Ian Shand

2017-2021 
 
Vyome Singh Dr Vyome Singh
Analogue event horizons in Dielectric medium
2015-2019 
now: Software engineer in risk strats, J.P. Morgan
Malaika Jose Georges Malaika Jose Georges Measurement of the nonlinear index of near-zero refractive index materials
2017-2018
Alastair Marshall Alastair Marshall Production and characterisation of tuneable resonant radiation
2017-2018
Maxime Jacquet Dr Maxime Jacquet Negative frequency at the horizon: scattering of light at a  
refractive index front
2013-2017
now: Research associate, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
Luke Masters Luke Masters Scattering of Light at optical event horizons via resonant  
radiation (Final Year Project Prize 2016)
2015-2016
Joanna McLenaghan Dr Joanna McLenaghan Negative frequency waves in optics: Control and investigation of their generation and evolution
2009-2013
now: Technology Consulting Analyst, Accenture, London
  Stephen Hill Pulses in fibres as artificial event horizons
  Andrew Meek Measuring the coherence time of an entangled light mode
  Vyome Singh Higher order soliton effect compression in single mode fibre
  Sven Rohr Fission of optical solitons and amplificaiton of Cherenkov radiation, Measurement of fiber dispersion profiles by resonant radiation
  Justinas Pupeikis Carrier-envelope phase of few-cycle pulses
  Tomasz Potapczyk Parabolic mirror alignment
  Amol Choudhary Artificial event horizons in fibers for generating Hawking radiation, Artificial event horizons in the visible for large frequency shifts
  Matusz Rybak Sub-micrometer 2D beam profiler
  James Luis Photon Counting



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