Postdoctoral Research Fellow : Dr Marlies Friese

Address:
Centre for Magnetic Resonance
Ritchie Building
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Qld 4072
E-mail address: Marlies Friese
Telephone: +61-7-3366 9128
Fax: +61-7-3365 3833
Home Page: Marlies Friese

Career Profile:

Dr Marlies Friese is currently involved in research of hyperpolarized (HP) noble gases for use in NMR spectroscopy and MRI. The group is working with two gases, 3He and 129Xe, that are potentially useful as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). HP129Xe can also be used for molecular spectroscopy. The group has produced HP3He , HP129Xe and frozen HP129Xe, and is currently using HP Xe for NMR spectroscopy of polymers surfaces, and to probe the structure of proteins. The next step is to move to imaging of live animals. Dr Friese is constructing an MRI compatible life support system for small animals, capable of delivering controlled amounts of HP gas to the animals for lung imaging. Two HP Gas MRI projects are in planning: one together with a IC specialist, to study recruitment/derecruitment in a smoke injury model in rats, the other to compare imaging methods  in an emphysema model in mice.

Dr Friese’s experiments with optical tweezers and absorbing particles were the first demonstration of the mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light to macroscopic particles, demonstrating rotational motion of the particles due to absorption of photons.

Research Interests :

Selected Publications:

• Talbot, C.L., Friese, M.E.J., Wang, D., Brereton, I., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2005).  Linewidth reduction in a large-smile laser diode array. Applied Optic 44(29): 6264-6268.

• Friese, M.E.J., Enger, J., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. and Heckenberg, N.R. (2003).  Optical angular-momentum transfer to trapped absorbing particles.  In Optical Angular Momentum.  Bristol: IOP Publishing Ltd., pp. 203-206.

• Talbot, C.L., Friese, M.E.J., Wang, D., Brereton, I., Heckenberg, N. and Rubinstein-Dunlop, H. (2003).  Production of hyperpolarised helium by optical pumping using laser diode array.  ACOLS, Melbourne, Australia.

• He, H., Friese, M.E.J., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2003).  Direct observation of transfer of angular momentum to absorptive particles from a laser beam with a phase singularity.  In Optical Angular Momentum.  Bristol: IOP Publishing Ltd,  pp. 1992-202.

• 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.  Journal of Modern Optics 48(1): 103-114.

• Friese, ME.J., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Gold, J., Hagberg, P. and Hanstorp, D. (2001).  Optically driven micromachine elements.  Applied Physics Letters 78(4): 547-549.

• Andersen, J.A., Friese, M.EJ., Truscott, A.G., Ficek, Z., Drummond, P.D., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2001).  Light guiding light: nonlinear refraction in rubidium vapor.  Physics Reviews A 63(2): 023820/1-9.

• Andersen, J.A., Friese, M.E.J., Ficek, Z., Drummond, P.D., Heckenberg, N.R., Rubinsztein Dunlop, H. and Truscott, A.G. (2001).  Light guiding light: nonlinear refraction in rubidium vapour.  Technical Digest.  Summaries of papers presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference.  Postconference Technical Digest IEEE Cat. No. 01CH37172.2001: 137.

• Friese, M.E.J., Andersen, J.A. and Rubinstein Dunlop, H. (2001). Atom motion in Laguerre-Guassian doughnut beams.  Technical Digest.  Summaries of papers presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference.  Postconference Technical Digest IEEE Cat. No. 01CH37172: 219.

• Truscott, A.G., Friese, M.E.J., Hensinger, W.K., Wiseman, H.M., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. and Heckenberg, N.R. (2000).  Coherent atomic beam splitter using transients of a chaotic system.  Physical Review Letters 84(18): 4023-4026.

• Friese, M.E.J., Andersen, J.A., Rubinsztein Dunlop, H., Truscott, A.G. and Heckenberg, N.R. (2000).  Light torque on atoms.  Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference QELS 2000.  Technical Digest, Postconference Edition. IEEE Cat. No. 00CH37089. TOPS 40: 131.

• Truscott, A.G., Friese, M.E.J., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (1999).  Optically written waveguide in an atomic vapor.  Physical Review Letters 82(7) 1438-1441.

• Talbot, C.L., Friese, M.E.J., Wang, D.M., Brereton, I., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (1999).  A laser diode narrowing scheme for producing narrow spectra with diodes possessing large smile.  Applied Optics 44(29): 6264-6268.

• Friese, M.E.J., Truscott, A.G., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. and Heckenberg, N.R. (1999).  Three-dimensional imaging with optical tweezers.  Applied Optics 38(31): 6597-6603.

• Truscott, A.G., Hensinger, W.K., Friese, M.E.J., Rubinsztein Dunlop, H. and Heckenberg, N.R. (1999).  Experimental observation of phase space resonances in the quantum chaotic dynamics of cold atoms.  Technical Digest.  Summaries of papers presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference.  Postconference Edition Cat. No. 99CH37012.  240 1.

• Friese, M.E.J., Truscott, A.G., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein Dunlop, H. (1999).  A scanning microscope employing an optically trapped stylus.  Technical Digest.  Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics.  Postconference Edition.  C.EO 99. IEEE Cat. No. 99CH37013: 106.

• Friese, M.E.J., Rubinsztein Dunlop, H., Gold, J. and Hagberg, P.  (1999).  Laser driven micro-machine elements..  Technical Digest.  Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics.  Postconference Edition.  C.EO 99. IEEE Cat. No. 99CH37013: 106 7.

• Friese, M.E.J., Nieminen, T.A., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (1998).  Optical torques on microscopic waveplates.  Nature 394: 348.
  Friese, M.E.M., Nieminen, T.A., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (1998).  Controlled optical torque by elliptical polarisation.   Optics Letters 23: 1-3.

• Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Nieminen, T.A., Friese, M.E.J. and Heckenberg, N.R. (1998).  Optical trapping of absorbing particles. Advances in Quantum Chemistry 30: 469-492.

• Heckenberg, N.R., Nieminen, T.A., Friese, M.E.J. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (1998) Trapping microscopic particles with singular beams.  Proceedings of SPIEE 3487: 46-53.

• Friese, M.E.J., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Enger, J. and Heckenberg, N.R. (1996).  Optical angular momentum transfer to trapped absorbing particles.  Physics Reviews A 54: 1593-1596.

• 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.  Applied Optics 35: 7112-7117.

• Friese, M.E.J., He, H., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (1996).  Transfer of angular momentum to absorbing particles from laser beam with phase singularity.  Proceedings of SPIE 2792: 190-195.

• He, H., Friese, M.E.J., Heckenberg, N.R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (1995). Direct observation of transfer of angular momentum to absorptive particles from a laser beam with a phase singularity.  Physics Review Letters 75: 826-829.

Other Activities :

Awards:  1999: ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship;  Qld Nominee for Bragg Medal for Best Australian PhD Thesis in Physics;  1998: Dean’s commendation for PhD Thesis;  1997 Australian Optical Society Postgraduate Student Prize
Memberships:  1995-present: Australian Institute of Physics;  1997 – present: Australian Optical Society