Assoc. Professor Norman Heckenberg

Reader in Physics Room 2.15, Physics Annexe Department of Physics The University of Queensland St. Lucia, Brisbane, 4072. Tel: +61 7 3365 3369 Fax: +61 7 3365 1242 heckenberg@physics.uq.edu.au Back from SSP in New York City� Measuring forces on cell membranes using lasers

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION:

Cabramatta High School, 1958-1962.

University of Sydney, Sydney

Bachelor of Science with first class honours , 1967

Ph D Sydney 1972. Thesis title: "Studies of decaying plasma".

APPOINTMENTS: Reader In Physics, The University of Queensland, 1994-

Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland 1985 - 1993.

Lecturer, The University of Queensland 1975 - 1984.

Gastforscher, Max-Planck-Institut f�r Plasmaphysik, Garching,

Germany1972 - 1975.

Teaching Fellow, University of Sydney 1971.

SPECIAL STUDIES PROGRAMS:

Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 1983

Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Florence, 1992

Columbia University, New York, 2000/1

RESEARCH AREAS:

Laser diagnostics of plasmas, infrared and far infrared lasers, laser stabilisation and frequency control, nonlinear optics,chaos in lasers , pattern formation in lasers, optical phase singularities, optical particle trapping, atom trapping, multiphoton fluorescence imaging, spectroscopy of quantum dots. For a more concrete idea of what I have been doing recently, scan the publication list below.

Director, Physics Museum, UQ.

PUBLICATIONS 1996-2004

Book Chapters

48.������ Heckenberg, N.R. 1998. Crookes' Radiometer. In "Instruments of Science: a Historical Encyclopedia", Bud, R., Johnston, S., Warner, D. and Bahr, B., (eds.) Garland, Cambridge, Mass.1998, pp510-512.

58.������ Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Friese, M.E.J., Heckenberg, N.R., and Nieminen, T.A. 1998Optical Trapping of Absorbing Particles. Advances in Quantum Chemistry.30, (P.Lowdin,ed),��������� Academic Press, San Diego, pp469-492.

83.������ C.P. Smith, R.G. McDuff, N.R. Heckenberg, M.S. Soskin, and M.V. Vasnetsov. 1999. Experimental realisation and detection of optical vortices. Ch. 2 in "Optical Vortices", M. Vasnetsov and K. Staliunas (eds), Nova Science Publishers, New York.

84.������ N.R. Heckenberg, M.E.J. Friese, T.A. Nieminen, and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop.1999. Mechanical Effects of Optical Vortices. Ch. 3 in "Optical Vortices", M. Vasnetsov and K. Staliunas (eds), Nova Science Publishers, New York.

International journal articles

47.������ Cooper, S.J., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1996. Theory of a Michelson interferometer used as a variable laser output coupler. Appl. Opt.35,9,1395-1398

49.������ Tang, D.Y., Li, M.Y., Heckenberg, N.R., and H�bner, U. 1996. Chaotic Dynamics of an optically pumped NH₃ multi-transverse mode ring laser. J.Opt.Soc.Am.B 13,9,2055-2064.

50.������ Dykstra, R., McDuff, R.G., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1997. Self-defocusing effects in an ethanol solution of Chlorophyll. J. Nonlin. Opt. Phys. and Mat.,6,2,181-192.

51.������ Heckenberg, N.R., Vaupel, M., Malos, J.T., and Weiss, C.O. 1996. Optical vortex pair creation and annihilation and helical astigmatism of a non-planar ring resonator. Phys. Rev.A 54,3,2369-2378..

52.������ Friese, M.E.J., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Heckenberg, N.R. and Enger, J. 1996. Optical angular momentum transfer to trapped absorbing particles. Phys.Rev.A 54, 2, 1593-1596..

53.������ Friese, M.E.J., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Heckenberg, N.R. and Dearden, E.W. 1996. Determination of the force constant of a single-beam gradient trap by measurement of backscattered light. Appl. Opt. ,35,36,7112-7116.

54.������ Tang, D.Y., Dykstra, R., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1996. Antiphase dynamics in an optically pumped bidirectional ring laser. Opt. Commun.126, 318-325.

55.������ Tang, D.Y., Dykstra, R., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1996. Synchronisation of chaotic laser mode dynamics. Phys. Rev. A.54, 6, 5317-5322.

56.������ Tang, D.Y., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1996. Spontaneous self-organization in chaotic laser mode-mode interaction. Opt Commun 131,89-94..

57.������ Heckenberg, N.R. 1996 Crookes� Radiometer and Otheoscope. Bull. Sci.Inst. Soc.50, 40-42.

59.������ Tang,D.Y. and Heckenberg, N.R. 1997 Homoclinic Orbits and Chaos in a Multimode Laser. J.O.S.A. B 14 (11), 2930-2935.

60.������ Tang, D.Y. and Heckenberg, N.R. 1997 Synchronisation of Mutually Coupled Chaotic Systems. Phys. Rev.E. 55,6,6618-6623.

61.������ Dykstra, R., Malos, J.T., Heckenberg, N.R., and McDuff, R.G. 1997 Metastable Chaos in the Ammonia Ring Laser. Phys. Rev A 56,4,3180-3186..

62.������ Truscott, A.G., Baleva, D., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H.1998 Short-term Spatial Diffusion in sigma plus- sigma minus Optical Molasses. Opt. Commun. 145, 81-85..

63.������ Soskin, M.S., Gorshkov, V.N., Vasnetsov, M.V., Malos, J.T., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1997 Topological charge and angular momentum of light beams carrying optical vortices. Phys. Rev.A 56,4, 4064-4075..

64.������ Tang, D.Y.,and Heckenberg, N.R.,1997 Antiphase Dynamics of a Chaotic Multimode Laser. Phys. Rev.A, 56,1,1050-1052

65.������ Friese, M.E.J., Nieminen, T., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 1998 Optical torque controlled by elliptical polarization.. Opt. Lett. 23,1,1-3.

66.������ Dykstra, R., Rayner, A., Tang, D.T., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1998 Experimentally Tracking Unstable Steady States by Large Periodic Modulation. Phys. Rev E 57,1, 397-401.

67.������ Malos, J.T., Tang, D.Y., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1998 Dependence of transient dynamics in a class C laser upon the variation of inversion with time. Phys. Rev A, 57, 1, 559-566..

68.������ Friese, M.E.J., Nieminen, T.A., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 1998 Alignment or spinning of laser-trapped microscopic waveplates. Nature, 394, 348-350.(correction 395,621)

69.������ Heckenberg, N.R., McDuff, R., Smith, C.P. and White, A.G. 1996 Generation of optical phase singularities by computer generated holograms. In Selected Papers on Zone Plates, J.Ojeda-Castaneda and C. Gomez-Rieno (eds), SPIE Milestone Series Volume MS 128, SPIE Washington, 1996.

70.������ Truscott, A.G., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 1999 Frequency stabilised grating feedback laser diode for atom cooling applications. Opt. Quant. Electron.31, 5, 417-430.

71.������ Hensinger,W., Truscott, A.G., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1999 Variations of relative line intensities in saturation spectroscopy due to low magnetic fields. Opt. Quant. Electron.31, 5, 391-403.

72.������ Dykstra, R., Tang, D.Y., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1998 Experimental control of a single mode laser chaos by using continuous time delayed feedback. Phys Rev E, 57, 6, 6596-6598.

73.������ Tang, D.Y., Dykstra, R., Hamilton, M.W., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1998 Experimental evidence of frequency entrainment between coupled chaotic oscillations. Phys. Rev. E 57, 3, 3649-3651.

74.������ Tang, D.Y., Dykstra, R., Hamilton, M.W., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1998. Observation of generalised synchronisation of chaos in a driven chaotic system. Phys. Rev. E 57, 5, 5247-5251.

75.������ Berry, D., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 1999. Effects associated with bubble formation in optical trapping. J. Mod Opt.47, 9, 1575-1585

76.������ Truscott, A.G., Friese, M.E.J., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 1999. Optically written waveguide in an atomic vapour. Phys Rev Letters 82, 7, 1438-1441.

77.������ Tang, D.Y., Dykstra, R., Hamilton, M.W., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1998. Stages of chaotic synchronisation. Chaos 8, 3, 697-701.

78.������ Hensinger, W.K., Truscott, A.G., Upcroft, B., Hug, , Wiseman, H.M., Heckenberg, N.R., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., 2001 Experimental study of the quantum driven pendulum and its classical analog in atom optics. Phys. Rev. A, 64, 033407

79.������ Friese, M.E.J., Truscott, A.G., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 1999 Three dimensional imaging using optical tweezers. Appl Opt.,38(31), 6597-6603.

80.������ Vaupel, M., Mandel, O., and Heckenberg, N.R. 1999 Two-wave-mixing induced self-focussing in an active photorefractive oscillator J.Optics B: Quant. Semiclass. Opt. 1, 96-100.

81.������ Bayoudh, S., Mehta, M., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Heckenberg, N.R., and Chritchley, C. 2001. Micromanipulation and Orientation of Chloroplasts of Spinacia oleracea using Optical Tweezers. J. Microscopy,203 Pt2, 214-222.

82.������ Truscott, A.G., Friese, M.E.J., Hensinger, W.K., Wiseman, H.M., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H.R., and Heckenberg, N.R. 2000. Coherent atomic beamsplitter using transients of a chaotic system. Phys. Rev. Letters.84, 18 4023-4026.

85.������ Nieminen, T.A., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2001). Optical measurement of microscopic torques. J. Mod. Opt.48, 3, 405-413.

86.������ Rayner,A., Friese, M.E.J., Truscott, A.G., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2001) Laser cooling of a solid from ambient temperature. J.Mod.Opt. 48 (1): 103-114 .

87.������ Hensinger, W.K., Truscott, A.G., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2000) Atoms in an amplitude modulated standing wave - dynamics and pathways to quantum chaos and decoherence. J. Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, 2,5, 659-667.

88.������ Andersen JA, Friese MEJ, Truscott AG, Ficek Z, Drummond PD, Heckenberg NR, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H. (2001) Light guiding light: Nonlinear refraction in rubidium vapor .Phys. Rev. A,6302 (2): 3820

89.������ Kociuba, G., Heckenberg, N.R., and White, A.G. 2001. Transforming chaos to periodic oscillations. Phys. Rev. E. (accepted)

90.������ Hensinger, W.K., Haeffner, H., Browaeys, A., Heckenberg, N.R., Helmerson, K., McKenzie, C., Milburn, G.J., Phillips, W.D., Rolston, S.L., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., and Upcroft, B. (2001) Dynamical Tunnelling of ultracold atoms. Nature, 412, 52-55.

91.������ Dimer to monomer transformations of Rhodamine 6G in aqueous PPO-PEO-PPO block co-polymer solutions. R. Vogel, M. Harvey, P. Meredith, N. Heckenberg, G. Edwards, M. Trau and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop. Submitted Macromol., (2001).

92.������ Distributed laser refrigeration. A. Rayner, M. Hirsch, N.R. Heckenberg and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop. Accepted for publication in Appl.Optics, 2001.

93.������ Nieminen, T., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., and Heckenberg, N.R. 2001. Calculation and optical measurement of laser trapping forces on non-spherical particles. J.Quant. Spectrosc. Rad. Trans. 70,627-637.

94.������ Hensinger, W.K., Upcroft, B., Holmes, C.A., Heckenberg, N.R., Milburn, G.J., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2001. Multiple bifurcations in atom optics. Phys. Rev. A, 64, 063408.

95.������ Nieminen, T.A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Heckenberg, N.R., and Bishop, A.I. 2001 Numerical modeling of optical trapping. Comp. Phys. Comm., 142, 468-471.

96.������ Nieminen, T.A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., and Heckenberg, N.R. 2003. Multipole expansion of strongly focused laser beams. JQSRT, 79-80, 1005-1007.

97.������ Vogel, R., Meredith, P., Kartini, I., Harvey, M., Riches, J.D., Bishop, A., Heckenberg, N.R., Trau, M., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2003. Mesoporous Dye-doped Titanium Dioxide for Micro-Optoelectronic Applications. ChemPhysChem,4,595-603.

98.������ Vogel, R., Meredith, P., Kartini, I., Harvey, M., Riches, J.D., Bishop, A., Heckenberg, N.R., Trau, M., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2003. Mesostructured dye-doped titanium dioxide for micro-optoelectronic applications. CHEMPHYSCHEM, 4 (6): 595-603

99.������ Fernee, M.J., Warner, J., Watt, A., Cooper, S., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2003.Inorganic Surface Passivation of PbS Nanocrystals Resulting in Strong Photoluminescence Emission.� Nanotechnology, 14, (9): 991-997.

100.���� Bayoudh, S., Nieminen, T.A., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2003 Orientation of biological cells using plane polarized Gaussian beam optical tweezers. J.Mod. Opt. 50,10, 1581-1590.

101.���� Hensinger, Winfried K., Heckenberg, Norman R., Milburn, Gerard J., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina. 2003. Experimental Tests of Quantum Nonlinear Dynamics in Atom Optics. J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt.,5, R83-R120.

102.���� Kociuba, G., and Heckenberg, N.R. Controlling the complex Lorenz equations by modulation. 2002. Phys. Rev. E 66, 026205 (2002).

103.���� Fernee, M.J., Warner, J., Watt, A.,� Cooper, S.J.,Heckenberg, N.R., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2003. Polarised photoluminescence for surface-passivated PbS Nanocrystals. Nanotechnology 15(2004) 16-22.

104.���� Kociuba, G., and Heckenberg, N.R. Controlling chaos in a Lorenz-like system using feedback.2003. Phys. Rev E, 6806 (6) 6212-6212 Part 2.

105.���� Nieminen, T.A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., and Heckenberg, N.R. 2003. Calculation of the T-matrix: general considerations and application of the point-matching method. JQSRT 79-80, 1019-1029.

106.���� Bishop, A.I., Nieminen, T.A., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop. (2003) Optical Application and measurement of torque on microparticles of isotropic nonabsorbing material. Phys Rev A. 68, 033802

107.���� Rayner, A., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2003. Condensed-phase optical refrigeration. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 20, 5, May 2003.

108.���� Vogel, R., Dobe, C., Edwards, G., Whittaker, A., Riches, J.D., Raftery, T.,Harvey, M., Meredith, P., Heckenberg, N.R., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and Trau. M Post-synthesis stabilization of mesoporous silica films by ammonia vapor treatment.� Submitted to Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.. 2003

109.���� Bishop, A.I., Nieminen, T.A., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2004. Optical microrheology using rotating laser-trapped particles. Phys Rev.Letters, 92,19,198104( (also selected for the May 15, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)

110.���� Fernee, M.J., Watt, A., Warner, J., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2004. "Evidence for Energy Relaxation via a Radiative Cascade in������ Surface-passivated PbS Quantum Dots", Nanotechnology 15, 1328

111.���� Vogel, R., Harvey, M., Meredith, P., Kartini, I., Riches, J.D., Bishop, A.I., Heckenberg, N.R., Trau, M., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2003 Optical gain in dye-doped mesostructured titanium dioxide derived from a tetrachloride precursor. Submitted to Appl. Opt.

112. ��� Ratnapala, A., Vale, C.J., White, A.G., Harvey, M.D., Heckenberg, N., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2004. Laser frequency locking by direct measurement of detuning. Accepted by Optics Letters.

113.���� Vale, C.J., Upcroft, B., Davis, M.J., Heckenberg, N.R., and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2004 Foil-based atom chip for Bose-Einstein condensates. J.Phys. B:At.Mol. Opt. Phys. B/181744/PAP/120119

114.���� Fernee, M.J., Watt, A., Warner, J., Heckenberg, N., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2004. Direct observation of mixed-parity excited states in surface-passivated PbS nanocrystals. Nanotechnology 15, 1351..

115.���� Fernee, M., Watt, A., Warner, J., Riches, J., Heckenberg, N., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. 2004 Investigation of the role of Cadmium Sulfide in the Surface Passivation of Lead Sulfide Quantum Dots. Accepted by J. Crystal Growth.

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