Projects
Solid-state room-temperature masers
MASERs (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) invented in the 1950s preceded the laser, but were confined to operate at cryogenic temperatures. As a result, they were confined to niche, yet important, applications like radio astronomy and the Deep Space Network (receiving signals from interplanetary probes like Voyager). In 2012, we demonstrated the first solid-state maser that worked at room-temperature (link).
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED)
- Rydberg atoms
- NV centres in diamond