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Office Location: EN135
Hawthorn Campus

Office Phone: +61 3 9214 8555
Fax: +61 3 9214 5160

Email: rmclean@swin.edu.au

Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
Mail H38, PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia 3122

Professor Russell McLean

Acting Director

Qualifications:
PhD (Otago)
BSc(Hons) (Otago)

Projects:
Magnetic atom optics
Integrated atom optics
Atomic coherence spectroscopy

Teaching:
HET503 Lasers
HMS417 Photonics and Fibre Optics
HMS111 Engineering Mathematics 1
HMS112 Engineering Mathematics 2
HMS101 Foundation Mathematics

Selected publications:

  • Electromagnetically induced absorption and transparency due to long lived Zeeman coherence
    Alexander Akulshin, Russell McLean, Andrei Sidorov and Peter Hannaford
    in New Trends in Quantum Coherence and Nonlinear Optics (Horizons in World Physics, Volume 263) ed. R. Drampyan (Nova, New York) pp. 1-43 (2009)

  • Dynamics of reflection of ultracold atoms from a periodic one-dimensional magnetic lattice potential.
    Mandip Singh, Russell McLean, Andrei Sidorov and Peter Hannaford
    Phys. Rev. A 79, 053407 (2009)

  • Coherent and collimated blue light generated by four-wave mixing in Rb vapour
    Alexander Akulshin, Russell McLean, Andrei Sidorov and Peter Hannaford
    Optics Express 17, 22861-70 (2009) arxiv:0910.2292

  • Anomalous dispersion and negative group velocity in a coherence-free cold atomic medium
    William G. A. Brown, Russell McLean, Andrei Sidorov, Peter Hannaford, and Alexander Akulshin
    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25 C82-C86 (2008)

  • Broadband optical delay with large dynamic range using atomic dispersion
    M.R. Vanner, R.J. McLean, P. Hannaford and A.M. Akulshin
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 41, 051004 (2008). arXiv 0711.4172

  • One dimensional lattice of permanent magnetic microtraps for ultracold atoms on an atom chip
    M. Singh, M. Volk, A. Akulshin, A. Sidorov, R. McLean and P. Hannaford
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 41, 065301 (2008) arXiv 0801.0642

  • Storage of light in an atomic medium using electromagnetically induced absorption
    A.M. Akulshin, A. Lezama, A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean and P. Hannaford
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 38, L365-L374 (2005)

  • Enhanced atomic Kerr nonlinearity in bright coherent states
    A.M. Akulshin, A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean and P. Hannaford
    J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6, 491-494 (2004).

  • Permanent magnet microstructures for atom optics
    A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean, F. Scharnberg, D.S. Gough, T.J. Davis, B.A. Sexton, G.I. Opat and P. Hannaford
    Acta Physica Polonica B 33, 2137-2155 (2002).

  • Reflection of cold atoms from an array of current-carrying conductors
    D.C. Lau, A.I. Sidorov, G.I. Opat, R.J. McLean, W.J. Rowlands and P. Hannaford
    Eur. Phys. J. D 5, 193-9 (1999).

  • Magnetic mirrors with micron-scale periodicities for slowly moving neutral atoms
    D.C. Lau, R.J. McLean, A.I. Sidorov, D.S. Gough, J. Koperski, W.J. Rowlands, B.A. Sexton, G.I. Opat and P. Hannaford
    J. Optics B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 1, 371-7 (1999).

  • Specular reflection of cold caesium atoms from a magnetostatic mirror
    A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean, G.I. Opat, W.J. Rowlands, D.C. Lau, J.E. Murphy, M. Walkiewicz and P. Hannaford
    Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 8, 713-25 (1996).