Project Description

The main interest of this research is to better understand the collective scattering of light by ordered or disordered clouds of ultracold atoms. For this purpose we developed an experimental setup to cool strontium atomic clouds to ultra-low temperatures, where they enter a state of quantum degeneration, and eventually transfer them to an optical network. Light propagates very differently in disordered and periodically ordered media in a network. In disordered clouds we can expect phenomena such as Anderson's location of light, topped subradiance. In optical networks we can expect forbidden photonic bands allowing to control the light flow in a predictable way. More details can be found at http://www.ifsc.usp.br/~strontium/

Team

Philippe Wilhelm Courteille
Romain Bachelard                    (Jovem Pesquisador)
Rodrigo Shiozaki                        (Pós-Doc)
Raul Celistrino Teixeira            (Pós-Doc)
Michal Hemmerling                    (Pós-Doc)
Paulo Hisao Moriya                    (Doutorando)
Carlos Eduardo Maximo                  (Doutorando)
Tiago Santiago do Espirito Santo      (Mestrando)
Florent André Julien Cottier      (Doutorando)
Leticia Lopes Dami                    (Iniciação Científica)
Fagner Rodrigues Todão                (Iniciação Científica)
Augusto Piovezana Massucato       (Iniciação Científica)
Leonardo Clemente Franklin     (Iniciação Científica)
Nilson Abadias                           (Iniciação Científica)

 

Onde nos encontrar?

IFSC – sala 45 / lab 29