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Sapam Ranjita Chanu
Ph.D., IISc Bangalore, India, 2014
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics + Department of Photonics Science and Engineering Programme (joint appointment)
Research Interest
Areas of Interest: Quantum computation and simulations with cold ions, cold atoms and quantum metrology with single pure state of cold atoms and ions
Office
Room # SL217A,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Experimental Atomic and Molecular Optical Physics and Quantum Optics
Education
PhD, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore,India - 2014
PG, Manipur University, Canchipur, Manipur - 2005
UG, G.P. Women’s College, Imphal, Manipur - 2003
Selected Publications
"Degenerate optical resonator for the enhancement of large laser beams", Nicolas Mielec*, Ranjita Sapam*, Constance Poulain, Arnaud Landragin, Andrea Bertoldi, Philippe Bouyer, Benjamin Canuel, Remi Geiger,Opt. express, vol 28 , pp 39112 , (2020). (*-Equal contribution) https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.409293
“Precision measurements on the 138Ba+ 6s2S1/2 - 5d2D5/2 clock transition", Kyle J. Arnold, Rattakorn Kaewuam, S R. Chanu, Ting Rei Tan, Zhiqiang Zhang, Murray D. Barrett, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol 124, pp 193001 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.193001.
“Magic wavelength of the 138Ba+ 6s 2S1/2 − 5d 2D5/2 clock transition”, S. R. Chanu, V. P. W. Koh, K. J. Arnold, R. Kaewuam, T. R. Tan, Zhiqiang Zhang, M. S. Safronova, and M. D. Barrett, Phys. Rev. A, 101 (4), 042507, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.042507 (2020).
“Suppressing inhomogeneous broadening in a lutetium multi-ion optical clock", T. R. Tan, R. Kaewuam, K. J. Arnold, S. R. Chanu, Z. Zhang, M. Safronova, M. D. Barrett, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.123, pp 063201(2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.063201
“Atom interferometry with top-hat laser beams", N. Mielec, M. Altorio, R. Sapam, D. Horville, D. Holleville, L.A. Sidorenkov, A. Landragin,and R.Geiger,Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 113, pp. 161108 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5051663
“Generation of a cold pulsed beam of Rb atoms by transfer from a 3D magneto-optic trap", Sapam Ranjita Chanu, K. D. Rathod and Vasant Natarajan, Physics Letters A, vol. 380, pp. 2943-2946 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2016.07.022
“Conversion between electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption in a three lambda system", Sapam Ranjita Chanu, Kanhai Europhysics Lett., vol. 98, pp. 44009 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/44009
Awards & Fellowships
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2016-2018, SYRTE-Obs. de Paris, France (Awarded by European Union)
CSIR-JRF, Government of India, June 2006
GATE Physics-2006
Free-studentship Manipur University, 2003-2004
Professional Experience
Research Fellow, Center for Quantum Technologies, NUS Singapore 2018-2022.
Marie Curie Research Fellow, SYRTE-Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France, 2016-2018
Post doctoral research associate -University of Strathclyde, UK, 2015-2016
Post doctoral Fellow, UNIST, South Korea, 2014-2015