Professor Peter Hannaford

Projects: All, but especially magnetic atom optics, biological molecules, coherence spectroscopy, and femtosecond ablation.

Office: AS204

Telephone: +61 3 9214 5164 (office), +61 3 9214 5685 (lab)

Fax: +61 3 9214 5160

Email: phannaford@swin.edu.au

Selected Publications:

• A permanent magnetic film atom chip for Bose-Einstein condensation. B.R. Hall, S. Whitlock, F. Scharnberg, P. Hannaford and A.I. Sidorov, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, 27-36 (2006).

• Permanent magnetic lattices for ultracold atoms and quantum degenerate gases. Saeed Ghanbari, Tien D Kieu, Andrei Sidorov and Peter Hannaford, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, 847-860 (2006).
  

• Storage and retrieval of light pulses in atomic media with 'slow' and 'fast' light. A. Lezama, A.M. Akulshin, A.I. Sidorov and P. Hannaford, Phys. Rev. A. 73, 033806 (2006).

• Bose-Einstein condensates on a permanent magnetic film atom chip. B.V. Hall, S. Whitlock, F. Scharnberg, P. Hannaford and A. Sidorov, Laser Spectroscopy Eds. E.A. Hinds, A. Ferguson and E. Riis, World Scientific, Singapore, 275-282 (2005).

• Perpendicularly magnetized grooved GdTbFeCo microstructures for atom optics. J.Y. Wang, S. Whitlock, F. Scharnberg, D.S. Gough, A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean and P. Hannaford, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 38, 4015-4020 (2005).

• 'Storage of light' in an atomic medium using electromagnetically induced absorption. A.M. Akulshin, A. Lezama, A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean and P. Hannaford, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 38, L365-L374 (2005).

• Spectrally resolved two-colour femtosecond photon echoes. L.V. Dao, C.N. Lincoln, R.M. Lowe and P. Hannaford, in Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy (Ed. P. Hannaford), Ch 8, pp. 197-224, Springer (2005).

• Time-resolved and time-integrated photoluminescence for studies of state filling and quantum confinement of silicon quantum dots. L.V. Dao, X. Wen, M.T.T. Do, P. Hannaford, E.-Ch. Cho, Y.H. Cho and Y. Huang, J. Appl. Phys, 97, 013501 (2005).

• Femtosecond nonlinear coherence spectroscopy of carrier dynamics in porous silicon. L.V. Dao and P. Hannaford, J. Appl. Phys. 98, 83508 (2005).

• Enhanced atomic Kerr nonlinearity in bright coherent states. A.M. Akulshin, A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean and P. Hannaford, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6, 491-494 (2004).

• Spectrally resolved femtosecond two-colour three-pulse photon echoes: study of ground and excited state dynamics in molecules. L.V. Dao, C.N. Lincoln, R.M. Lowe and P. Hannaford, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 8434-8442 (2004).
  

• Optical properties of semiconductor quantum structures CdTe/ZnSe: contribution of CdTe quantum dots. L.V. Dao, R.M. Lowe, P. Hannaford, H. Makino, T. Takai and T. Yao, Int. J. Nanoscience 3, 265-272 (2004).

• Dipolar oscillations in a quantum degenerate Fermi-Bose atomic mixture. F. Ferlaino, R.J. Brecha, P. Hannaford, F. Riboli, G. Roati, G. Modugno and M. Inguscio, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 5, S3-S8 (2003).

• Light propagation in an atomic medium with steep and sign reversible dispersion. A.M. Akulshin, A. Cimmino, A.I. Sidorov, P. Hannaford and G.I. Opat, Phys. Rev. A 67, 011801 (2003).

• Highly nonlinear atomic medium with steep and sign-reversible dispersion. A.M. Akulshin, A. Cimmino, A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean and P. Hannaford, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Optics 5, S479 (2003).

• Spectrally resolved 2-colour 3-pulse photon echo studies of vibrational dynamics in molecules. 1. L.V. Dao, C.N. Lincoln, R.M. Lowe and P. Hannaford, Physica B 327, 123-128 (2003).

• Femtosecond nonlinear spectroscopy for investigation of the �yellow band� of GaN. L.V. Dao, R.M. Lowe and P. Hannaford, J. Phys. B 36, 1719-1729 (2003).

• Permanent magnet microstructures for atom optics. A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean, F. Scharnberg, D.S. Gough, T.J. Davis, B.A. Sexton, G.I. Opat and P. Hannaford, Acta Physica Polonica B 33, 2137-2155 (2002).

• Femtosecond three-pulse photon echo and population grating studies of the optical properties of CdTe/ZnSe quantum dots. L.V. Dao, R.M. Lowe, P. Hannaford, H. Makino and T. Yao, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 1806-1808 (2002).

• Subpicosecond laser ablation of dental enamel. A.V. Rode, E.G. Gamaly, B. Luther-Davies, B.T. Taylor, J. Dawes, A. Chan, R.M. Lowe and P. Hannaford, J. Appl. Phys. 92, 2153-2158 (2002).

• High-aspect ratio micromachining of polymers with ultrafast laser. Y. Zhang, R.M. Lowe, E.C. Harvey, P. Hannaford and A. Endo, Appl. Surface Science 186, 345-351 (2002).

• Micron-scale magnetic structures for atom optics. A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean, B.A. Sexton, D.S. Gough, T.J. Davis, A.M. Akulshin, G.I. Opat and P. Hannaford, Comptes Rendus de l�Academie des Sciences 2, Series IV, 565-572 (2001).

• Sub-Doppler laser cooling of fermionic 40K atoms. G. Modugno, C. Benko, P. Hannaford, G. Roati and M. Inguscio, Phys. Rev. A 60, R3373-6 (1999).

• Reflection of cold atoms from an array of current carrying conductors. D.C. Lau, A.I. Sidorov, G.I. Opat, R.J. McLean, W.J. Rowlands and P. Hannaford, Eur. Phys. J. D 5, 193-9 (1999).

• Magnetic mirrors with micron-scale periodicities for slowly moving neutral atoms. D.C. Lau, R.J. McLean, A.I. Sidorov, D.S. Gough, J. Koperski, W.J. Rowlands, B.A. Sexton, G.I. Opat and P. Hannaford, J. Optics B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 1, 371-7 (1999).

• Atomic absorption with ultracold atoms. P. Hannaford and R.J. McLean, Spectrochim. Acta, Part B 54, 2183-94 (1999).

• Specular refection of cold caesium atoms from a magnetostatic mirror. A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean, G.I. Opat, W.J. Rowlands, D.C. Lau, J.E. Murphy, M. Walkiewicz and P. Hannaford, Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 8, 713-25 (1996).

• Magnetostatic state-selective deflection of a beam of laser-cooled atoms. W.J. Rowlands, D.C. Lau, G.I. Opat, A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean and P. Hannaford, Opt. Commun 126, 55-60 (1996).