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Professor Miles Padgett, FRSE
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland, U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 5389
Fax: +44 (0)141 330 2893
e-mail: m.padgett@physics.gla.ac.uk
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Miles Padgett is Professor of Optics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He heads a 15-person team covering a wide spectrum from blue-sky research to applied commercial development, funded by a combination of government charity and industry. In 2001 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2007/8 he was a Leverhulme Trust Royal Society Senior Research Fellow.
In 2008 Padgett was awarded the Institute of Physics Optics and Photonics Division Prize for a "distinguished record of achievement in research that spans fundamental aspects of optical angular momentum and applied optical sensors". In 2009 Padgett was awarded the Institute of Physics Young Medal "for pioneering work on optical angular momentum".
Padgett has international reputation for his contribution to the fundamental understanding of light's momentum, including conversion of optical tweezers to optical spanners, observation of a rotational form of the Doppler shift and an angular form of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Padgett has published over 200 papers in the world's leading scientific journals.
He has made a number of TV and radio appearances and numerous public lectures -- promoting science and technology to the widest possible audience.
He lives in Glasgow's West End with his Scottish wife.
The Optics research group is an active participant both in the department's and in the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Outreach programme.
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Selected publications
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 L. Allen, S. M. Barnett, and M. J. Padgett, Optical angular momentum (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003; ISBN 0 7503 0901 6)
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Jonathan Leach, Mark Dennis, Johannes Courtial and Miles Padgett,
Laser beams - Knotted threads of darkness,
Nature 432, 165 (2004)
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Graham Gibson, Johannes Courtial, Miles J. Padgett, Mikhail Vasnetsov, Valeriy Pas'ko, Stephen M. Barnett and Sonja Franke-Arnold,
Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum,
Opt. Express 12, 5448 (2004)
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A. T. O'Neil, I. MacVicar, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett,
Intrinsic and extrinsic nature of the orbital angular momentum of a light beam,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 053601 (2002)
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N. B. Simpson, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett,
The mechanical equivalence of the spin and orbital angular momentum of light:
an optical spanner,
Opt. Lett. 22, 52-54 (1997)
Teaching material
Selected talks
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