Kenneth Baldwin
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Kenneth Baldwin

Position

  • Centre Deputy Director, ANU IAS Node Director, ARC CoE for Quantum-Atom Optics
  • Senior Fellow, Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University

Qualifications

  • BSc, ANU
  • MSc, ANU
  • PhD, DIC, Imperial College, London
  • Fellow of the Optical Society of America
  • Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics

Contact Details

Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering,
The Australian National University,
Canberra ACT 0200
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61-2) 6125 4702
Fax: (+61-2) 6125 2452
Personal Webpage
Email: kenneth.baldwinanu.edu.au

Research Interests

  • Quantum and Atom Optics
  • Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms
  • Bose-Einstein Condensation
  • Metastable Helium Atom Optics
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules
  • Coherent Generation of VUV Radiation

Selected Publications

  • Electron collisions with laser cooled and trapped metastable helium atoms: Total scattering cross sections.
    L.J. Uhlmann, R. Dall, A.G. Truscott, M.D. Hoogerland, K.G.H. Baldwin and S.J. Buckman,
    Physical Review Letters 94, 173201 (2005).
  • Metastable helium: Atom optics with nano-grenades.
    K.G.H. Baldwin,
    Contemporary Physics, 46 (2), 105 – 120 (2005).
  • A high flux, liquid-helium cooled source of metastable rare gas atoms.
    J.A. Swansson, K.G.H. Baldwin, M.D. Hoogerland, A.G. Truscott, and S.J. Buckman,
    Applied Physics B, 79 (4), 485 - 489 (2004).
  • Quantum reflection of metastable helium 23S atoms in hollow optical fibres.
    X.W. Halliwell, H. Friedrich, S.T. Gibson and K.G.H. Baldwin,
    Optics Communications 224, 89-95 (2003).
  • Non-linear atom optics with bright matter wave soliton trains.
    V.Y.F. Leung, A.G. Truscott and K.G.H. Baldwin,
    Physical Review A (Rapid Communications), 66, 061602 (1-4) (2002).
  • Single light mode hollow optical fibres for atom guiding.
    R.G. Dall, M.D. Hoogerland, D. Tierney, K.G.H. Baldwin and S.J. Buckman,
    Applied Physics B 74 (1), 11 - 18 (2002).
  • Fast magnetic field switching for magneto-optic traps.
    C.J. Dedman, K.G.H. Baldwin and M. Colla,
    Review of Scientific Instruments 72 (11), 4055 - 4058 (2001).
  • Guiding of metastable helium atoms through hollow optical fibres.
    R.G. Dall, M.D. Hoogerland, K.G.H. Baldwin and S.J. Buckman,
    Journal of Optics B 1 (4), 396 - 401 (1999).
  • Sharp edged silicon structures generated using atom lithography with metastable helium atoms.
    W. Lu, K.G.H. Baldwin, M.D. Hoogerland, S.J. Buckman, T.J. Senden, T.E. Sheridan and R.W. Boswell,
    J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 16 (6), 3846 - 3849 (1998).
  • Variable focal length lens for atoms.
    Qiming Li, K.G.H. Baldwin, H.-A. Bachor, and D.E. McClelland,
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B 13 (2), 257 - 267 (1996).
 
 

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