Professor Erling Riis

Physics

Personal statement

Erling Riis joined the Physics Department in 1991 after having worked as a post-doc with Nobel Laureate Steven Chu at Stanford for two years. Initially research at Strathclyde concentrated on high-resolution atomic spectroscopy and the development of the highly specialised laser sources required for these experiments. This work also formed the foundation of the establishment of activities at Strathclyde in laser cooling of atoms.

Presently this work ranges from fundamental studies of atom interferometry to the development of a platform for miniaturising cold atom based quantum technology.  

Publications

A feed-forward measurement scheme for periodic noise suppression in atomic magnetometry
O'Dwyer Carolyn, Ingleby Stuart J, Chalmers Iain C, Griffin Paul F, Riis Erling
Review of Scientific Instruments Vol 91 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0002964
Optical characterisation of micro-fabricated Fresnel zone plates for atomic waveguides
Henderson V A, Johnson M Y H, Kale Y B, Griffin P F, Riis E, Arnold A S
Optics Express Vol 28, pp. 9072-9081 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.388897
Progress of a compact microwave clock based on atoms cooled with a diffractive optic
Elvin Rachel, Hoth Gregory W, Wright Michael, Lewis Ben, Bregazzi Alan, Keliehor Brendan, Arnold Aidan S, Griffin Paul F, Riis Erling
Proceedings Optical, Opto-Atomic, and Entanglement-Enhanced Precision Metrology II SPIE Photonics West 2020 Proceedings of SPIE Vol 11296, pp. 1129609 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2552587
Cold-atom clock based on a diffractive optic
Elvin R, Hoth G W, Wright M, Lewis B, McGilligan J P, Arnold A S, Griffin P F, Riis E
Optics Express Vol 27, pp. 38359-38366 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.378632
Fast piezoelectric scanning MEMS mirror for 1D ion adressing
Janin Paul, Bauer Ralf, Griffin Paul, Riis Erling, Uttamchandani Deepak
IEEE International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN2019) (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1109/OMN.2019.8925168
Towards a compact atomic clock based on coherent population trapping and the grating magneto-optical trap
Hoth Gregory W, Elvin Rachel, Wright Michael, Lewis Ben, Arnold Aidan S, Griffin Paul F, Riis Erling
SPIE Photonics West OPTO, pp. 109342E (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2516612

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Professional activities

Quantum Technology Showcase 2019
Participant
15/11/2019
Israel Science Foundation (External organisation)
Advisor
5/2019
Towards a compact atomic clock based on coherent population trapping and the grating magneto-optical trap
Speaker
6/2/2019
CLEO 2019 (Event)
Peer reviewer
1/1/2019
International Conference on laser Spectroscopy (Event)
Peer reviewer
1/9/2018
Compact cold atom systems prospects for space applications
Speaker
14/7/2018

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Projects

NPL iCASE studentship (Binod Limbu): Coherence of Ions in a microfabricated trap
Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator)
02-Jan-2020 - 29-Jan-2024
Scalable Qubit Arrays for Quantum Computation and Optimisation (M Squared Prosperity Partnership)
Pritchard, Jonathan (Principal Investigator) Daley, Andrew (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
05-Jan-2020 - 04-Jan-2025
Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2018 | Limbu, Binod
Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Limbu, Binod (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing
Hastie, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Hastie, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2024
UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing
Hastie, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Hastie, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2024
Translational Quantum Technology Phd Studentship - Birmingham Doctoral Training Programme | Irwin, Edward
Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator) Irwin, Edward (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2022

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