• Question: why are you researching lasers and not something ells?

    Asked by Gizmo020227 to Chris on 16 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by mojems (imogen).
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      Chris Armstrong answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Ooo tough call, lasers have interested me for ages.
      I worked them into multiple undergraduate projects. And I was lucky enough to find, and be granted, a PhD course into them.

      Weirdly the undergrad stuff was laser cooling not laser excitation as I am doing now, even weirder it was into the 5th state of matter (Bose-Einstein Condensates) rather than the 4th (Plasma).

      Honestly never noticed the parity until you asked the question so thank you.

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