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).