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Biography

Charles Adams was educated at Oulder Hill Community School in Rochdale. He studied Physics at Hertford College, Oxford University. He obtained a Masters by Research from McMaster University in Canada followed by a PhD from Strathclyde University in Glasgow. After post doctoral work in Germany and the US, he began a research group at Durham in October 1995. His main interests are in experimental quantum optics, in particular light-matter interactions in strongly-interacting atomic systems. He was awarded the Thomson medal by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2014 and the Holweck Prize by the French Physical Society and IOP in 2020 for pioneering work on quantum optics.

With I. G. Hughes he is author of the optics textbook, Optics f2f.

Research interests

  • Quantum optics

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Publications

Authored book

  • Optics f2f
    Adams, C., & Hughes, I. (in press). Optics f2f. OUP.

Chapter in book

  • Motion of Objects Through Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates
    Adams, C., Jackson, B., Leadbeater, M., McCann, J., & Winiecki, T. (2001). Motion of Objects Through Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates. In C. Barenghi, R. Donnelly, & W. Vinen (Eds.), Quantized Vortex Dynamics and Superfluid Turbulence (p. 307-). Springer Verlag.

Conference Paper

  • THz electrometry with Rydberg atoms and all IR lasers
    Chen, S., Reed, D., Downes, L. A., MacKellar, A. R., Almuhawish, N. F., Jamieson, M. J., Adams, C. S., & Weatherill, K. J. (2021). THz electrometry with Rydberg atoms and all IR lasers. In 2021 46th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/irmmw-thz50926.2021.9567392
  • Loading of selected sites in an optical lattice using light-shift engineering
    Griffin, P., Weatherill, K., Macleod, S., Potvliege, R., & Adams, C. (2005). Loading of selected sites in an optical lattice using light-shift engineering. In E. Hinds, A. Ferguson, & E. Riis (Eds.), Laser spectroscopy : XVII International Conference of Laser Spectroscopy ; proceedings. (pp. 307-314). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812701473_0032
  • Dipole Trapping, Cooling in Traps, and Long Coherence Times
    Lee, H.-J., Adams, C., Davidson, N., Young, B., Weitz, M., Kasevich, M., & Chu, S. (1995). Dipole Trapping, Cooling in Traps, and Long Coherence Times. In AIP Conf. Proc. 323: Atomic Physics 14 (p. 258-).

Journal Article

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