Expertise

Areas of Expertise

  • Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
  • Atom cooling and trapping
  • Ultracold plasmas

Duncan’s research interests include high resolution laser spectroscopy; ionization dynamics of Rydberg states of atoms; the interaction of super-high intensity laser pulses with atoms, molecules and solids; and atom cooling and trapping.

Research Interests:

  • Experimental Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics - atom cooling and trapping, laser spectroscopy, Rydberg atoms, ultracold plasmas, external cavity diode lasers, ultrafast lasers.

Faculty Research Interests:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics
    • Cold Rydberg Atoms and Cold Plasmas
Communities
Physics, Astronomy
Degrees
MA, University of Oxford, 1999
DPhil, University of Oxford, Experimental Physics, 1987
BA, University of Oxford, Physics, 1983
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