Dr Ruth Oulton

Summary

I am an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow in the Centre for Quantum Photonics, and hold a proleptic lectureship in Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.  My research interests centre around the use of solid-state quantum emitters that interact with light, for quantum technology applications.

I am Principle Investigator and Co Investigator of several research grants which cover a range of research interests:

• EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship: "Nuclear Nanomagnets for Quantum Optical Spin Devices"

• PI of EU FP7 Future and Emerging Technologies collaboration grant "Spin Photon Angular Momentum Transfer for Quantum Enabled Technologies" (SPANGL4Q).

• Co-I of CHIST-ERA collaboration grant "Solid-State Quantum Networks" (SSQN)

• I have also very recently received a New Directions for EPSRC Research Leaders Award, on "Biomimetics for Quantum Optics".

Teaching

Lectures:

 "Waves" part of "Waves and Optics" course for the foundation Physics 1E/1P course.

Final Year Projects:

Final year project and dissertation students in Physics

Final year and MSc project students in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

• Quantum Dots
• Quantum Technologies
• Quantum Optics Semiconductor Physics
• Optical Spectroscopy Nanophotonics
• light-matter interactions
• quantum electro-dynamics in solid-state systems.

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

School of Physics

Physics staff

• Physics academic staff

Research groups

• Quantum Photonics

Recent publications

• Luxmoore, IJ, Wasley, NA, Ramsay, AJ, Thijssen, ACT, Oulton, R, Hugues, M, Kasture, S, Gopal, AV, Fox, AM & Skolnick, MS 2013, ‘Interfacing Spins in an InGaAs Quantum Dot to a Semiconductor Waveguide Circuit Using Emitted Photons’. Physical Review Letters, vol 110.
• Thijssen, ACT, Cryan, MJ, Rarity, JG & Oulton, R 2012, ‘Transfer of arbitrary quantum emitter states to near-field photon superpositions in nanocavities’. Optics Express, vol 20., pp. 22412-22428
• Hu, C, Young, A, Carswell, S, Oulton, R, C., S, S., R, Martin, K, A., F, S., H & Rarity, J 2012, ‘Limitless range quantum communications: steps towards a solid-state quantum repeater (Invited)’. in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), 4-8 March 2012, Los Angeles.
• Chalcraft, A, Lam, S, Jones, B, Szymanski, D, Oulton, R, Thijssen, A, Skolnick, M, Whittaker, D, Krauss, T & Fox, A 2011, ‘Mode structure of coupled L3 photonic crystal cavities’. Optics Express, vol 19 (6)., pp. 5670 - 5675
• Young, A, Oulton, R, Hu, C, Thijssen, A, Schneider, C, Reitzenstein, S, Kamp, M, Hofling, S, Worschech, L, Forchel, A & Rarity, J 2011, ‘Quantum dot induced phase shift in a pillar microcavity’. Physical Review A, vol 84., pp. 011803 - 011806
• Hu, CY, Munro, WJ, Young, AB, Oulton, R, O'Brien, JL & Rarity, JG 2010, ‘PHOTON-SPIN QUANTUM INTERFACE USING A QUANTUM-DOT SPIN IN A MICROCAVITY’. in: L Vina, C Tejedor, JM Calleja (eds) 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTICS OF EXCITONS IN CONFINED SYSTEMS (OECS11). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft & IOP Publishing Ltd, pp. -
• Auer, T, Oulton, R, Bauschulte, A, Verbin, SY, Cherbunin, RV, Reuter, D, Wieck, A, Yakovlev, DR & Bayer, M 2010, ‘THE EFFECT OF MILLITESLA MAGNETIC FIELDS ON ELECTRON-NUCLEAR SPIN DYNAMICS IN InGaAs QUANTUM DOTS’. in: L Vina, C Tejedor, JM Calleja (eds) 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTICS OF EXCITONS IN CONFINED SYSTEMS (OECS11). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft & IOP Publishing Ltd, pp. -
• Auer, T, Oulton, R, Bauschulte, A, Yakovlev, D, Bayer, M, Verbin, SY, Cherbunin, R, Reuter, D & Wieck, A 2009, ‘Measurement of the Knight field and local nuclear dipole-dipole field in an InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot ensemble’. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), vol 80 (20)., pp. 205303-1 - 205303-15
• Jones, BD, Astratov, VN, Oulton, R, Lam, S, Sanvitto, D, Whittaker, DM, Fox, AM, Skolnick, MS, Fry, PW & Hopkinson, M 2008, ‘Whispering Gallery Modes in Quantum Dot Micropillar Cavities’. in: 2008 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS & QUANTUM ELECTRONICS AND LASER SCIENCE CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-9. IEEE Computing, NEW YORK, pp. 1722-1723
• Lam, S, Chalcraft, ARA, Szymanski, D, Oulton, R, Jones, BD, Sanvitto, D, Whittaker, DM, Fox, AM, Skolnick, MS, O'Brien, D, Krauss, TF, Liu, H-, Fry, PW & Hopkinson, M 2008, ‘Coupled Resonant Modes of Dual L3-Defect Planar Photonic Crystal Cavities’. in: 2008 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS & QUANTUM ELECTRONICS AND LASER SCIENCE CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-9. IEEE Computing, NEW YORK, pp. 3020-3021

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Dr Oulton currently teaches 2 courses: