Reece is a postdoc at Macquarie University.
His project combines research on manipulating optical defects in nanoparticles and cold-atom trapping with trapping and levitation of nanoparticles in order to study the influence of embedded optical defects ("artificial atoms") on the motion of the crystal as a whole for near-resonant trapping lasers.
Reece’s ultimate goal is twofold: on the one hand, he wants to design novel optical tweezers with enhanced optical forces for manipulating ultra-small nano diamonds in liquid, and on the other hand, he aims to exploit the optical forces from the NV centres to cool the centre-of-mass motion of a levitated nano diamond as a whole.
