Dr Rachel Offer
Grant-Funded Researcher (B)
School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Experimental physicist with expertise in nonlinear optics, hot and cold atomic vapours, and mode shaping with spatial light modulators.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2020 - ongoing Grant-funded researcher Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) 2019 - 2020 Research Associate School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow 2018 - 2019 Research Associate Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2014 - 2018 Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde United Kingdom PhD -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Strathearn, A., Offer, R. F., Hilton, A. P., Klantsataya, E., Luiten, A. N., Anderson, R. P., . . . Stace, T. M. (2023). Wave-front curvature in optical atomic beam clocks. Physical Review A, 108(1), 013105-1-013105-12.
2021 Offer, R. F., Daffurn, A., Riis, E., Griffin, P. F., Arnold, A. S., & Franke-Arnold, S. (2021). Gouy phase-matched angular and radial mode conversion in four-wave mixing. Physical Review A, 103(2), L021502-1-L021502-7.
Scopus372021 Daffurn, A., Offer, R. F., & Arnold, A. S. (2021). A simple, powerful diode laser system for atomic physics. Applied Optics, 60(20), 5832-5836.
Scopus42021 Bourbeau Hebert, N., Scholten, S., Hilton, A., Offer, R., Perrella, C., & Luiten, A. (2021). Orthogonalizing the control of frequency combs for optical clockworks. Optics Letters, 46(19), 4972-4975.
Scopus4 WoS22021 Sun, X., Rickard, W. D. A., Sparkes, B. M., White, B. R., Offer, R. F., Luiten, A. N., & Ironside, C. N. (2021). Rapid prototyping of grating magneto-optical traps using a focused ion beam. Optics Express, 29(23), 37733-1-37733-14.
Scopus3 WoS12020 Offer, R. F., Stulga, D., Riis, E., Franke-Arnold, S., & Arnold, A. S. (2020). Spiral bandwidth of four-wave mixing in rubidium vapour. Communications Physics, 1(1).
Scopus442017 Radwell, N., Offer, R. F., Selyem, A., & Franke-Arnold, S. (2017). Optimisation of arbitrary light beam generation with spatial light modulators. Journal of Optics, 19(9), 1-11.
Scopus162016 Offer, R. F., Conway, J. W. C., Riis, E., Franke-Arnold, S., & Arnold, A. S. (2016). Cavity-enhanced frequency up-conversion in rubidium vapor. Optics Letters, 41(10), 2177-2180.
Scopus372016 Clark, T. W., Offer, R. F., Franke-Arnold, S., Arnold, A. S., & Radwell, N. (2016). Comparison of beam generation techniques using a phase only spatial light modulator. Optics Express, 24(6), 6249-6264.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2020 Hawley, R. D., Offer, R., Radwell, N., & Franke-Arnold, S. (2020). Tight focal spots using azimuthally polarised light from a Fresnel cone. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 11359 (pp. 1-8). online: SPIE.
DOI Scopus32019 Offer, R. F., Stulga, D., Riis, E., Franke-Arnold, S., & Arnold, A. S. (2019). Spiral bandwidth of four-wave mixing in rubidium vapour. In 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019 (pp. 1). IEEE.
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Preprint
Year Citation 2024 Ahern, E., Allison, J. W., Billington, C., Hébert, N. B., Hilton, A. P., Klantsataya, E., . . . Martin, K. W. (2024). Demonstration of a Mobile Optical Clock Ensemble at Sea. 2024 White, B., Offer, R., Hilton, A., & Luiten, A. (2024). The SWaP plot: Visualising the performance of portable atomic clocks as
a function of their size, weight and power.
2018 - EPSRC Doctoral Prize (competitively awarded internal fellowship)
2013 - Institute of Physics/Nuffield Undergraduate Research Bursary
2012 - EPSRC Summer Bursary Award
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 Co-Supervisor NGTF quantum technology stream quest to build a portable atomic clock Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Benjamin Robert White
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