Optical patterns for secure information
Writing in Physical Review Letters, Daniele Giovannini of the Optics Group has used the technology found in data projectors to explore how secure information might be communicated using patterns of light.
PhD student wins SET award in Parliament
Emma Wisniewski-Barker wins the Bronze Medal at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of her physics research
Tweezers Work Well Under Pressure
Writing in Physical Review Letters, Richard Bowman of the Optics Group has optically trapped micron-sized particles at Giga Pascal Pressures – comparable to the pressures found in stars.
Optics Group to host ICOAM 2013
The Optics Group will host international conference in The Burrell Collection, one of Glasgow's historic Museums.
Optical Angular Momentum plenary lecture
Professor Miles Padgett gave talk at Photonics West 2013 in San Francisco
A quantum picture tells a thousand secure words
Evidence of Quantum Mechanics captured in an Image. Matt Edgar and the Glasgow Optics Group working with collaborators in Heriot Watt and Rochester USA have shown that the latest CCD camera technology can capture the the science of quantum mechanics in an image.
iProbe App touches the microworld
Richard Bowman working in the optics group in collaboration with Kleindiek Nanotechnik has developed a iPad interface to their micromanipulation system.
Graduate student awarded SPIE scholarship.
Martin Lavery of the optics group was awarded the SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics
Prof Miles Padgett interviewed by SPIE newsroom.
Miles Padgett interviewed by SPIE newsroom on Optical Tweezers and Twisted Beams of Light
Dr Johannes Courtail featured on the BBC programme Coast
Dr Johannes Courtial from the School of Physics & Astronomy recently appeared as an expert in an episode of the BBC programme "Coast". He explained the physics of the "green flash", an atmospheric phenomenon that can cause the top of sun to appear green as it is setting or rising above the sea.
US Honour for Prof Miles Padgett
Professor Miles Padgett has been elected to fellowship of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in recognition of his "experimental and theoretical advances in the interplay of orbital and spin angular momentum of light and its interaction with matter".
Graduate student wins conference prize
Jacqui Romero of the Optics Group, was invited to speak at the prestigious meeting of the Rank Prize Fund on "Optical Implementation of Quantum Information", where she was awarded the prize for the best student talk.
Entanglement's next dimension
The spooky link between distant objects is the hallmark of Quantum Physics, where measurement at one location gives instantaneous knowledge about another...
iStore App places the microworld at your fingertips
Richard Bowman has launched his fingertip interface to a holographic optical tweezers in the iStore (free download).
The world as seen through a spinning window
The speed of light is a constant only in space. When light travels through glass, movement of the glass drags the light with it too. Spinning a window as fast as you can is predicted to rotate slightly the image of the world behind it.
Tweezers with a Twist
Richard Bowman, a graduate student in the Optics Group along with his supervisor, Professor Miles Padgett have contributed the cover story to the latest edition of Nature Photonics.
Entangled tangles of darkness
Writing in Physics Review Letters, Jacqui Romero of the Optics Group working with her collaborators in Strathclyde and Bristol has shown that knotted lines of darkness embedded optical fields are themselves non-locally entangled.
iPad tweezers
As covered by New Scientist, Wired and many other outlets, Richard Bowman of the Optics Groups has just published the use of an Apple iPad to control an optical tweezers.
The light keeps twisting
Professors Miles Padgett and Stephen Barnett (Strathclyde) have been jointly awarded a £2.5M Programme grant under one of the UK's most prestigious award schemes.
iProbe App touches the microworld
Richard Bowman working in the optics group in collaboration with Kleindiek Nanotechnik has developed a iPad interface to their micromanipulation system.