Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SPIRAL (Single Photons from Isotopically-pure Rubidium Atoms in a Long fibre)
Reporting period: 2018-07-01 to 2020-02-29
The projects main goals were to investigate the possibility of using a new class of optical fibre, namely hollow-core photonic crystal fibres, to more efficiently generate light via so called “four-wave mixing”. Furthermore, complications in filtering the photons mean that another major goal of the project was to investigate a possible enabling technology, the so-called atomic Faraday dichroic beam splitter.
The results of the project have been disseminated to the scientific community through international conferences and meetings, as well as an academic article submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. Furthermore, we have participated in outreach activities to showcase our research to younger physics and school students (through lab tours) to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers.