Description of Research

We are an interdisciplinary research group with a focus on developing new tools and applying them to important problems in both the physical and life sciences - from fundamental physics, astrophysics and nanoscience to bioimaging, physiology and medical diagnostics. Current areas of research include:

* Precision tests of fundamental physical laws and symmetries;

* Development of improved optical wavelength calibrators for astrophysics, with applications to exoplanet searches and observational cosmology;

* Development of functionalized nanoparticles for bioimaging and sensing;

* MRI of hyperpolarized media for biomedical imaging, with a focus on pulmonary physiology and brain function;

* High-resolution magnetometry with NV-diamond, with applications in both the physical and life sciences;

* Investigations of EIT and slow & stored light, with applications to quantum information, photonics and precision measurements;

* NMR studies of porous and granular media.

Abstracts of recent research results

Group bibliography

Some ongoing projects :

Functionalized Nanoparticles	Laser Combs for Astrophysics	Open-Access MRI for humans
Test of CPT and Lorentz symmetry of the neutron	Slow and Stored Light	Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond
Test of CPT and Lorentz symmetry of the proton	Negative Refraction Studies	Porous and Granular Media Studies

Some long-running and past projects are described here:

* Rubidium Atomic Clocks

* Cryogenic hydrogen maser

* The Dual Noble Gas Maser

* Atomic Clock investigations at SAO

* Probing porous media with time-dependent gas diffusion NMR

* Low-field MRI of laser-polarized noble gas

* Polarized xenon in rat lungs and body tissues

* Xenon uptake calculations for humans

* Polarization lifetime of ¹²⁹Xe in a blood foam

* Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of laser-polarized liquid xenon and gas-liquid exchange