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Prof. Warwick Bowen
Professor Bowen is recognised both nationally and internationally for quantum optomechanics, precision measurement, and the translation of quantum technologies. He has made important contributions to the field, including the first demonstrations of quantum enhanced precision and resolution in biological measurements, the concept of cavity opto-electromechanics, photon pair generation from an atomic ensemble, two-dimensional beam positioning below the quantum limit, and strong coupling between a single atom and an integrated microcavity. He has been involved in major international efforts such as the US Air Force Biophysics Program, and the DARPA Quantum Assisted Sensing and Readout (QuASAR) and Optical Radiation Cooling and Heating in Integrated Devices (ORCHID) Programs.
Qualifications:
PhD, Australian National University, Australia (2004)
BSc (Hons), Otago University, New Zealand (1999)
2024
2024
Hirsch TMF, Mauranyapin NP, Romero E, Jin X, Harris G, Baker CG, Bowen WP.
2024. Directional emission in an on-chip acoustic waveguide. Applied Physics Letters. 124
2020
2020
Harris G, Sawadsky A, Sfendla YL, Wasserman WW, Bowen WP, Baker C.
2020. Proposal for a quantum traveling Brillouin resonator. Optics Express. 28(15):22450.
He X, Harris G, Baker C, Sawadsky A, Sfendla YL, Sachkou YP, Forstner S, Bowen WP.
2020. Strong optical coupling through superfluid Brillouin lasing. Nature Physics. 16(4):417-421.
2019
2019
Sachkou YP, Baker C, Harris G, Stockdale OR, Forstner S, Reeves MT, He X, McAuslan DL, Bradley AS, Davis MJ et al..
2019. Coherent vortex dynamics in a strongly interacting superfluid on a silicon chip. Science. 366(6472):1480-1485.
Forstner S, Sachkou Y, Woolley M, Harris GI, He X, Bowen WP, Baker C.
2019. Modelling of vorticity, sound and their interaction in two-dimensional superfluids. New Journal of Physics. 21(5):053029.
Basiri-Esfahani S, Armin A, Forstner S, Bowen WP.
2019. Precision ultrasound sensing on a chip. Nature Communications. 10(1)
Mauranyapin NP, Madsen LS, Booth L, Peng L, Warren-Smith SC, Schartner EP, Ebendorff-Heidepriem H, Bowen WP.
2019. Quantum noise limited nanoparticle detection with exposed-core fiber. Optics Express. 27(13):18601.
Warszawski P, Szorkovszky A, Bowen WP, Doherty AC.
2019. Tomography of an optomechanical oscillator via parametrically amplified position measurement. New Journal of Physics. 21(2):023020.
2018
2018
Romero-Sánchez E., Bowen WP, Vanner MR, Xia K., Twamley J.
2018. Quantum magnetomechanics: Towards the ultrastrong coupling regime. Physical Review B. 97(2)
2017
2017
Mauranyapin N.P, Madsen L.S, Taylor M.A, Waleed M., Bowen WP.
2017. Evanescent single-molecule biosensing with quantum-limited precision. Nature Photonics. 11(8):477-481.
Bekker C, Kalra R, Christopher Baker, Bowen WP.
2017. Injection locking of an electro-optomechanical device. Optica. 4(10):1196.
Guan S, Bowen WP, Liu C, Duan Z.
2017. Phonon antibunching effect in coupled nonlinear micro/nanomechanical resonator at finite temperature. EPL (Europhysics Letters). 119(5):58001.
Baker C, Bowen WP.
2017. Precision measurement: Sensing past the quantum limit. Nature. 547(7662):164-165.
Khosla K, Brawley GA, Vanner MR, Bowen WP.
2017. Quantum optomechanics beyond the quantum coherent oscillation regime. Optica. 4(11):1382.
2016
2016
Kermany AR, Bennett JS, Brawley GA, Bowen WP, Iacopi F.
2016. Factors affecting the f × Q product of 3C-SiC microstrings: What is the upper limit for sensitivity? Journal of Applied Physics. 119(5):055304.
Harris G.I, McAuslan DL, Sheridan E., Sachkou Y., Baker C, Bowen WP.
2016. Laser cooling and control of excitations in superfluid helium. Nature Physics.
McAuslan DL, Harris G. I., Baker C, Sachkou Y., He X., Sheridan E., Bowen WP.
2016. Microphotonic Forces from Superfluid Flow. Physical Review X. 6(2)
Madsen LS, Baker C, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H, Bowen WP.
2016. Nondestructive Profilometry of Optical Nanofibers. Nano Letters. 16(12):7333-7337.
Brawley GA, Vanner MR, Larsen P.E, Schmid S., Boisen A., Bowen WP.
2016. Nonlinear optomechanical measurement of mechanical motion. Nature Communications. 7:10988.
Yu C, Janousek J, Sheridan E, McAuslan DL, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H, Lam PK, Zhang Y, Bowen WP.
2016. Optomechanical Magnetometry with a Macroscopic Resonator. Physical Review Applied. 5(4)
Schäfermeier C, Kerdoncuff H, Hoff UB, Fu H, Huck A, Bilek J, Harris G, Bowen WP, Gehring T, Andersen U.
2016. Quantum enhanced feedback cooling of a mechanical oscillator using nonclassical light. Nature Communications. 7:13628.
Taylor J.M, Bowen WP.
2016. Quantum metrology and its application in biology. Physics Reports. 615:1-59.
Bennett JS, Khosla K, Madsen LS, Vanner MR, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H, Bowen WP.
2016. A quantum optomechanical interface beyond the resolved sideband limit. New Journal of Physics. 18(5):053030.
Baker C, Harris GI, McAuslan DL, Sachkou Y, He X, Bowen WP.
2016. Theoretical framework for thin film superfluid optomechanics: towards the quantum regime. New Journal of Physics. 18(12):123025.
2015
2015
Taylor J.M, Waleed M, Stilgoe AB, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H, Bowen WP.
2015. Enhanced optical trapping via structured scattering. Nature Photonics. 9(10):669-673.
Cole RM, Brawley GA, Adiga VP, De Alba R, Parpia JM, Ilic B, Craighead HG, Bowen WP.
2015. Evanescent-Field Optical Readout of Graphene Mechanical Motion at Room Temperature. Physical Review Applied. 3(2)
Bowen WP.
2015. Quantum Squeezing of Micromechanical Motion. Physics. 8
Kerdoncuff H, Hoff UB, Harris G, Bowen WP, Andersen U.
2015. Squeezing-enhanced measurement sensitivity in a cavity optomechanical system. Annalen der Physik. 527(1-2):107-114.
2014
2014
Bennett JS, Madsen LS, Mark Baker, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H, Bowen WP.
2014. Coherent control and feedback cooling in a remotely coupled hybrid atom–optomechanical system. New Journal of Physics.
Szorkovszky A, Clerk AA, Doherty AC, Bowen WP.
2014. Detuned mechanical parametric amplification as a quantum non-demolition measurement. New Journal of Physics.
Szorkovszky A, Clerk AA, Doherty AC, Bowen WP.
2014. Mechanical entanglement via detuned parametric amplification. New Journal of Physics.
Kermany AR, Brawley GA, Mishra N, Sheridan E, Bowen WP, Iacopi F.
2014. Microresonators with Q-factors over a million from highly stressed epitaxial silicon carbide on silicon. Applied Physics Letters.
Taylor J.M, Janousek J, Daria V, Knittel J, Hage B, Bachor H-A., Bowen WP.
2014. Subdiffraction-Limited Quantum Imaging within a Living Cell. Physical Review X.
Forstner S, Sheridan E, Knittel J, Humphreys CL, Brawley GA, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H, Bowen WP.
2014. Ultrasensitive Optomechanical Magnetometry. Advanced Materials.
Khosla K, Swaim JD, Knittel J, Bowen WP.
2014. Yield enhancement in whispering gallery mode biosensors: microfluidics and optical forces. Journal of Modern Optics. 61(5):415-418.
2013
2013
Knittel J, Swaim J, McAuslan DL, Brawley GA, Bowen WP.
2013. Back-scatter based whispering gallery mode sensing.. Scientific Reports. 3
Taylor J.M, Janousek J, Daria V, Knittel J, Hage B, Bachor H-A., Bowen WP.
2013. Biological measurement beyond the quantum limit. Nature Photonics.
Taylor J.M, Bowen WP.
2013. A computational tool to characterize particle tracking measurements in optical tweezers. Journal of Optics. 15(8):085701.
Swaim J, Knittel J, Bowen WP.
2013. Detection of nanoparticles with a frequency locked whispering gallery mode microresonator. Applied Physics Letters. 102(18):183106.
Taylor J.M, Bowen WP.
2013. Enhanced sensitivity in dark-field microscopy by optimizing the illumination angle. Applied Optics. 52(23):5718.
Akram U, Bowen WP, Milburn G.
2013. Entangled Mechanical Cat States via Conditional Single Photon Optomechanics. New Journal of Physics. 15, 093007
Taylor J.M, Knittel J, Bowen WP.
2013. Fundamental constraints on particle tracking with optical tweezers. New Journal of Physics. 15(2):023018.
Harris G, McAuslan DL, Stace TM, Doherty AC, Bowen WP.
2013. Minimum Requirements for Feedback Enhanced Force Sensing. Physical Review Letters. 111(10)
Taylor J.M, Knittel J, Bowen WP.
2013. Optical lock-in particle tracking in optical tweezers. Optics Express. 21(7):8018.
Ang S.Z, Harris G, Bowen WP, Tsang M.
2013. Optomechanical parameter estimation. New Journal of Physics. 15(10)
Khosla K, Vanner MR, Bowen WP, Milburn G.
2013. Quantum state preparation of a mechanical resonator using an optomechanical geometric phase. New Journal of Physics. 15(4):043025.
Hoff UB, Harris G, Madsen LS, Kerdoncuff H, Lassen M, Nielsen BM, Bowen WP, Andersen U.
2013. Quantum-enhanced micromechanical displacement sensitivity. Optics Letters. 38(9):1413.
Szorkovszky A, Brawley GA, Doherty AC, Bowen WP.
2013. Strong Thermomechanical Squeezing via Weak Measurement . Physical Review Letters. 110(18)
Knittel J, Chow JH, Gray MB, Taylor J.M, Bowen WP.
2013. Ultrasensitive real-time measurement of dissipation and dispersion in a whispering-gallery mode microresonator. Optics Letters. 38(11):1915.
Pages
Phononics: Engineering and control of acoustic filelds on a chip
Erick Romero
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Hybrid Optomechanics with Cold Atoms
James Bennett
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
3D Biological Imaging in Microheology Beyond the Quantum Limit
Muhammad Waleed
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Ultra strong optomechanical coupling of nanoscopic mechanical systems
Nicholas Wyatt
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Hybrid quantum opto-mechanics: interacting optical microresonators, nano-cantilevers, and artifical atoms
George Brawley
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Cavity Optomechanical Magnetometry
Dr. Yimin Yu
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Microresonator optomechanics with superfluid helium
Dr Xin 'Eric' He
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Gravitational decoherence in macroscopic quantum states
Kiran Khosla
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Quantum enhanced microscopy
Catxere Andrade Casacio
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Precision Optomechanical Magnetometry
Varun Prakash
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Optical measurement and control of electron lattices on superfluid films
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Quantum optomechanics in macroscopic systems
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Optical measurement and control of electron lattices on superfluid films
Chao Meng
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Chris Baker
Integrated cavity opto-electromechanics
Christiaan Bekker
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Chris Baker, Rachpon Kalra
Quantum optomechanics with macroscopic systems
Yasmine Sfendla
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Chris Baker, Dr Glen Harris
Quantum control of a mechanical oscillator at room temprature
Soroush Khademi
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Chris Baker
Last reviewed 21 July 2015
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