Professor of Optics
Miles John Padgett
OBE
FRS
FRSE
FInstP (born 1 June 1963
[4]
[5]) is a Royal Society Research Professor of
Optics in the School of
Physics and
Astronomy at the
University of Glasgow.
[7] He has held the
Kelvin Chair of
Natural Philosophy since 2011
[2]
[8]
[9]
[10] and served as
Vice Principal for research at Glasgow from 2014 to 2020.
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
Education
Padgett was educated at the
University of Manchester, the
University of York, the
University of St Andrews, and
Trinity College, Cambridge,
[5] where he was awarded a
PhD in 1988.
Research and career
Working with Les Allen, Padgett conducted pioneering work on
optical angular momentum,
[6] for which they were awarded 2009 the
Young Medal.
[1] The research group he leads is best known for its work on the fundamental properties of
light's angular momentum, including
optical tweezers and optical spanners,
[16] the use of orbital angular momentum states to extend the alphabet of optical communication (with both classical and quantum light), and demonstrations of an angular form of the
EPR paradox.
[17] Padgett's research has been published in leading
peer-reviewed
scientific journals including
Science,
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
Nature,
[23]
[24]
Physical Review Letters,
[6] and
Optics Express
[9] and
Progress in Optics.
[10] Padgett's research has been funded by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
[25]
Awards and honours
Padgett was elected a
Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2001,
[26] in 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the
Optical Society and in 2012 a Fellow of the
Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). In 2014 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) – the UK's National Academy of Science.
[26] His nomination for the Royal Society reads:
Padgett is internationally recognised for his leadership in the field of
optics and in particular of
optical momentum. His best known contributions include an optical spanner for spinning
micron-sized objects, use of
orbital angular momentum to increase the data capacity of communication systems and an angular form of the
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) quantum paradox.
[7]
In 2009, with Les Allen, he won the
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Young Medal and in 2014 Padgett was awarded the
Royal Society of Edinburgh's Lord Kelvin Medal. In 2015 he won the Science of Light Prize
[27] from the
European Physical Society[
citation needed], in 2017 the
Max Born Award
[28] of
The Optical Society (OSA) and in 2019 the
Rumford Medal
[29] of the Royal Society. Padgett is a
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP).
[4]
Padgett was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2020 Birthday Honours for services to scientific research and outreach.
[30]
Personal life
Padgett currently[
when?] resides in Glasgow with his wife
Heather Reid
[4]
[31]
[32] and their daughter, Jenna.
References
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b
"Young medal recipients". Iop.org. Archived from
the original on 18 March 2015.
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b
Miles Padgett publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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^ Romero, Mary Jacquiline (2012).
Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement. gla.ac.uk (PhD thesis).
OCLC
826894898.
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.564101.
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b
c
d Anon (2017).
"Padgett, Prof. Miles John".
Who's Who (online
Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
doi:
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281720. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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b
c
"Curriculum Vitae: Miles Padgett FRSE" (PDF). University of Glasgow. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 13 December 2013.
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a
b
c Leach, J.; Padgett, M.; Barnett, S.; Franke-Arnold, S.; Courtial, J. (2002). "Measuring the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Single Photon". Physical Review Letters. 88 (25): 257901.
Bibcode:
2002PhRvL..88y7901L.
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.257901.
PMID
12097130.
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a
b
"Professor Miles Padgett FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from
the original on 5 August 2014.
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^
"University of Glasgow :: Story :: Professorships: Natural Philosophy (Kelvin Chair)". University of Glasgow. Archived from
the original on 13 December 2013.
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a
b Gibson, G.; Courtial, J.; Padgett, M. J.; Vasnetsov, M.; Pas'Ko, V.; Barnett, S. M.; Franke-Arnold, S. (2004).
"Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum". Optics Express. 12 (22): 5448–5456.
Bibcode:
2004OExpr..12.5448G.
doi:
10.1364/OPEX.12.005448.
PMID
19484105.
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a
b Allen, L.; Padgett, M. J.; Babiker, M. (1999). IV the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light. Progress in Optics. Vol. 39. pp. 291–372.
doi:
10.1016/S0079-6638(08)70391-3.
ISBN
9780444501042.
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^
"University of Glasgow :: School of Physics and Astronomy :: Our staff :: Prof Miles J Padgett". University of Glasgow. 24 September 2012. Archived from
the original on 15 December 2014.
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^ Gibney, E. (2015).
"Optics: Leading lights". Nature. 518 (7538): 154–157.
Bibcode:
2015Natur.518..154G.
doi:
10.1038/518154a.
PMID
25673395.
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^
Miles Padgett: Optical tweezers and twisted beams of light on
YouTube,
SPIE.TV
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Miles Padgett's publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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^
"Scientists slow the speed of light:A team of Scottish scientists has made light travel slower than the speed of light". bbc.co.uk.
BBC News. 23 January 2015.
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^ Simpson, N. B.; Dholakia, K; Allen, L; Padgett, M. J. (1997). "Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: An optical spanner". Optics Letters. 22 (1): 52–4.
Bibcode:
1997OptL...22...52S.
doi:
10.1364/ol.22.000052.
PMID
18183100.
S2CID
4843974.
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^
"Optics: Research Areas". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
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^ Giovannini, D; Romero, J; Potoček, V; Ferenczi, G; Speirits, F; Barnett, S. M.; Faccio, D; Padgett, M. J. (2015). "Optics. Spatially structured photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light". Science. 347 (6224): 857–60.
arXiv:
1411.3987.
Bibcode:
2015Sci...347..857G.
doi:
10.1126/science.aaa3035.
PMID
25612608.
S2CID
206633745.
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^ Lavery, M. P.; Speirits, F. C.; Barnett, S. M.; Padgett, M. J. (2013).
"Detection of a spinning object using light's orbital angular momentum" (PDF). Science. 341 (6145): 537–40.
Bibcode:
2013Sci...341..537L.
doi:
10.1126/science.1239936.
PMID
23908234.
S2CID
206549611.
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^ Sun, B; Edgar, M. P.; Bowman, R; Vittert, L. E.; Welsh, S; Bowman, A; Padgett, M. J. (2013). "3D computational imaging with single-pixel detectors". Science. 340 (6134): 844–7.
Bibcode:
2013Sci...340..844S.
doi:
10.1126/science.1234454.
PMID
23687044.
S2CID
206547507.
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^ Franke-Arnold, S; Gibson, G;
Boyd, R. W.;
Padgett, M. J. (2011). "Rotary photon drag enhanced by a slow-light medium".
Science. 333 (6038): 65–7.
Bibcode:
2011Sci...333...65F.
doi:
10.1126/science.1203984.
PMID
21719672.
S2CID
206533289.
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^ Leach, J; Jack, B; Romero, J; Jha, A. K.; Yao, A. M.; Franke-Arnold, S; Ireland, D. G.;
Boyd, R. W.; Barnett, S. M.;
Padgett, M. J. (2010). "Quantum correlations in optical angle-orbital angular momentum variables".
Science. 329 (5992): 662–5.
Bibcode:
2010Sci...329..662L.
doi:
10.1126/science.1190523.
PMID
20689014.
S2CID
206526900.
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^ Leach, J; Dennis, M. R.; Courtial, J; Padgett, M. J. (2004).
"Laser beams: Knotted threads of darkness" (PDF). Nature. 432 (7014): 165.
Bibcode:
2004Natur.432..165L.
doi:
10.1038/432165a.
PMID
15538357.
S2CID
4381095.
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^ Courtial, J; Leach, J; Padgett, M. J. (2001).
"Fractals in pixellated video feedback" (PDF). Nature. 414 (6866): 864.
Bibcode:
2001Natur.414..864C.
doi:
10.1038/414864a.
PMID
11780051.
S2CID
4419305.
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"UK Government grants awarded to Miles Padgett".
Research Councils UK. Archived from
the original on 26 March 2015.
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b
"Miles Padgett's biography at SPIE". SPIE. Archived from
the original on 21 August 2014.
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"Research into the Science of Light Prize — QEOD". qeod.epsdivisions.org. Archived from
the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
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"Max Born Award". osa.org.
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"Rumford Medal". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
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"No. 63135".
The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B14.
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"Scotland | Sun shines on Heather the wedder". bbc.co.uk.
BBC News. 17 August 2001. Archived from
the original on 15 December 2013.
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^ Alison, Rennie (10 December 2009).
"Heather the Weather Quits – There will be 'snow' stress for me this Christmas".
Paisley Daily Express. p. 3. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
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