Monthly Archives: August 2015

Our work on using Whispering Gallery Modes to cool the centre-of-mass motion of “large” objects is up on arxiv here. We are able to cool objects tens-of-microns in size, and microgramms in mass, using light!

I visited Aurelian Dantan in the Ion Trapping group at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and gave a talk. I am particularly interested in their work on sympathetically cooling heavy ions, ions in optical cavities, as well as their … Continue reading →