Vasant Natarajan
Professor
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Academic qualification: B.Tech. (IIT, Madras); Ph.D. (MIT, Cambridge)


Telephone Nos.

• Office:        +91-80-2360 2237
• Lab:           +91-80-2293 2717
• Residence: +91-80-2360 2842
• E-mail:       vasant@physics.iisc.ernet.in
  
• See my laboratory and research
  

Research interests and activities:

Laser cooling and trapping of atoms, ion trapping, precision atomic tests of parity violation, search for electric dipole moment in atoms as a test of time reversal symmetry violation, optical tweezers, test of Bell's inequalities using dissociated atoms.


Selected Publications:

1. Vasant Natarajan, R. E. Behringer, and G. Timp, ``High contrast, high resolution focusing of neutral atoms using light forces'', Phys. Rev. A,53(6), pp. 4381--4385 (1996).
    
   
2. R. E. Behringer, Vasant Natarajan, and G. Timp, ``Laser focused atomic deposition - A new lithography tool'', Appl. Phys. Lett. 68(8), pp. 1034--1036 (1996).
    
   
3. Vasant Natarajan, R. E. Behringer, D. M. Tennant, and G. Timp, ``Nanolithography using a laser focused neutral atom beam'', J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 13(6), pp. 2823--2827 (1995).
    
   
4. Vasant Natarajan, F. DiFilippo, and D. E. Pritchard, ``Classical squeezing of an oscillator for subthermal noise operation'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, pp. 2855--2858 (1995).
    
   
5. Frank DiFilippo, Vasant Natarajan, Michael Bradley, F. Palmer, S. Rusinkiewicz, and D.~E.~Pritchard, ``Mass spectrometry at 0.1 part per billion for fundamental metrology'', IEEE Trans. on Inst. and Meas. 44(2), pp. 550--552 (1995).
    
   
6. F. DiFilippo, Vasant Natarajan, K. R. Boyce, and D. E. Pritchard, ``Accurate atomic masses for fundamental metrology'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 73, pp. 1481--1484 (1994).
    
   
7. Vasant Natarajan, F. DiFilippo, K. R. Boyce, and D. E. Pritchard, ``Precision Penning trap comparison of nondoublets: Atomic masses of H, D, and the neutron'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 71, pp. 1998--2001 (1993).
    
   
8. F. DiFilippo, Vasant Natarajan, K. R. Boyce, and D. E. Pritchard, ``Classical amplitude squeezing for precision measurements'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 68, pp. 2859--2862 (1992).

Recent theses:

Towards precision spectrocopy using laser-cooled atoms.
by Umakant D. Rapol