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Publications

Donlan G., Jahangir M., Griffiths D., Antoniou M., Singh Y. 'Design and Development of a Transportable Transmitter Node for Drone Detection in an L-Band Multistatic Network' IEEE (2025) Link

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Griffiths D., Jahangir M., Beasley P., Ritchie M., Donlan G., Kannanthara J., Baker C., Antoniou M., Singh Y. 'Synchronization Performance of L-Band Staring Radar with Different GPSDOs; IEEE (2025) Link 

 

Pertoldi A., Jha A., Hauge J., Wayland J., Kale Y., Singh Y., Montague P., Varming P. 'Low-noise fiber laser systems at 689nm and 698nm for strontium' Optics Express (Vol 33, Issue 8) (2025) Link

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Abdalla, A., Bongs, K., Bertoldi, A., Lien, Y., Holynski., M, Singh, Y. 'Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: summary of the second workshop' EPJ Quantum Technology (Vol. 12, No.42) (2025) Link 

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Balaz, A., Blas, D., Buchmueller O., Calatroni S., Singh, Y. 'Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry' 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics on behalf of the TVLBAI Proto-Collaboration (2025) Link

 

Griffiths, D., Donlan, G., Kannanthara, J., Jahangir, M., Baker, C., Antoniou, M., Singh, Y. 'Phase Synchronization of Bistatic Radar by Exploiting the Urban Scene' IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, (2025) Link

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​Ganesh, S., Zhang, S., Tiwari, B.S., Singh, Y. 'External-cavity diode laser at 2.6 μm and its frequency stabilization with a scanning Fabry-Pérot cavity' Optics Express, (Vol. 32, No. 24) (2024) Link

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Zhang, S, Tiwari, B.S., Ganesh, S, Singh, Y, and Flambaum V.V. 'Absolute frequency measurements on the 5⁢𝑠⁢5⁢𝑝3⁢𝑃0 → 5⁢𝑠⁢6⁢𝑑3⁢𝐷1 transition in strontium' Physical Review Research (Vol. 6, No. 4) (2024) Link

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Rajagopal, L., Oliveira, R.D., Lord, A., Singh, Y., Nejabati, R., Simeonidou, D. 'Experimental Demonstration of High Precision Time Transfer in FPGA for 5G and 6G Networks' International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM) (2024) Link

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Griffiths, D., Jahangir, M., Donlan, G., Kannanthara, J., Antoniou, M., Baker, C.J., Singh, Y. ‘Microwave Photonics in Networked Staring Radar’ IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP) (2024) Link

 

Jahangir, M., Griffiths, D., Singh, Y., Antoniou, M. ‘Building a Quantum-Enabled, Networked Radar Testbed for Urban Surveillance of Low Observable Aerial Targets – Current Status’ 10th NATO Military Sensing Symposium (2023) Link

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Jahangir, M., Griffiths, D., White, D., Donlan, G., Ren, X., Kannanthara, J., Singh, Y., Wayman, J.P., Baker , C.J., Sadler, J.P., Reynolds, S.J., Antoniou, A. 'Development of a Networked Photonic-Enabled Staring Radar Testbed for Urban Surveillance' IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation (2023) https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12524

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Griffiths, D., Jahangir, M., White, D., Kannanthara, J., Donlan, G., Baker, C.J., Singh, Y., Antoniou, M. 'Urban Clutter Analysis for Drone Detection using L-band Staring Radar' IEEE International Radar Conference (RADAR) (2023) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10371017

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Griffiths, D., Jahangir, M., Kannanthara, J., Donlan, G., Baker, C.J., Antoniou, M., Singh, Y. 'Fully digital, urban networked staring radar: Simulation and Experimentation' IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation (2023)

http://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12499

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Wiens, E., Kwong, C.J., Müller, T., Bongs, K., Singh, Y., Schiller, S. 'An Optical Frequency Reference based on a Cryogenic Silicon Resonator' Optics Express (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.497365

 

Sun, Q., Jones, J.M., Singh, A., Jha, A., Gellesch, M., Kale, Y., Singh, V., Barron, R., Jain, M., Bongs, K., Singh, Y. 'Frequency & Time: Measurements, Control and Transfer, Vol 1', Chapter 2, (2023) https://sensorsportal.com/HTML/BOOKSTORE/Frequency_and_Time_Vol_2.htm

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Kannanthara, J., Griffiths, D., Jahangir, M., Jones, J.M., Baker C.J., Antoniou, M., Bell, C.J., White, H., Bongs, K., Singh, Y. 'Whole System Radar Modelling: Simulation and Validation' (2023) https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/rsn2.12399

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Jahangir, M., Atkinson, G., White, D., Griffiths, D., Ren, X., Wayman, J., Baker, C.J., Sadler, J., Reynolds, J., Antoniou, M. 'Networked Staring Radar Testbed for Urban Surveillance: Status and Preliminary Results' (2022) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10038918

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Griffiths, D., Kannanthara, J., Jahangir, M., Antoniou, M., Baker C.J., Singh, Y. 'Direct Signal Synchronization for Staring Passive Bistatic Radar' (2022) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10038892

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Jones, J.M, Griffiths, D., Kannanthara, J., Jahangir, M., Antoniou, M., Baker C.J., Bongs, K., Singh, Y. "Quantum Enabled Radar Sensing" (2022) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9997763

 

Bongs, K., Cruise, A.M., Goldwin, J., Holynski, M., Singh, Y., et al. "Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map." EPJ Quantum Technol. 9, 30 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-022-00147-w

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Kale, Y. B., Singh, A., Gellesch, M., Jones, J. M., Morris, D., Aldous, M., Bongs, K., and Singh, Y. "Field deployable atomics package for an optical lattice clock" (2022) Quantum Science and Technology.  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-9565/ac7b40

 

Jahangir, M., Jones, J., Kannanthara J., Baker C.J., Bongs K., Antoniou M., and Singh Y. "Development of Quantum Enabled Staring Radar with Low Phase Noise" (2022), European Microwave Week 2021 Conference Proceedings

 

Bertoldi, A., Bongs, K., Bouyer, P. et al. AEDGE: Atomic experiment for dark matter and gravity exploration in space. Exp Astron (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09701-3

 

Gellesch, M., Jones, J., Barron, R., Singh, A., Sun, Q., Bongs, K. and Singh, Y. "Transportable optical atomic clocks for use in out-of-the-lab environments", AOT (2020)  https://doi.org/10.1515/aot-2020-0023

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Zhang, S., Ramchurn, P., Menchetti, M., Ubaid, Q., Jones, J., Bongs, K., Singh, Y. “Novel repumping on 3P0→3D1 for Sr magneto-optical trap and Landé g factor measurement of 3D1,” J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/abbe2c

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Bongs, K., Singh, Y. Earth-based clocks test general relativity. Nat. Photonics 14, 408–409 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-0654-5

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Badurina, L., Bentine, E., Blas, D., Bongs, K., Bortoletto, D., Bowcock, T., Bridges K. et al. "AION: An atom interferometer observatory and network." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2020, no. 05 (2020): 011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/011

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El-Neaj, Y.A., Alpigiani, C., Amairi-Pyka, S., Araujo, H., Balaž, A., Bassi, A., Bathe-Peters, L., et al. "AEDGE: Atomic experiment for darkmatter and gravity exploration in space." EPJ Quantum Technology 7, no. 1 (2020) 

https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-020-0080-0

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Hisao, P., Singh, Y., Bongs, K., and Hastie, J. "Sub-kHz-linewidth VECSELs for cold atom experiments" Optics Express. doi:  10.1364/OE.390982

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Origlia, S., Pradmod, M.S., Schiller, S., Singh, Y., Bongs, K., Schwarz, R., Al-Masoudi, A,. et al. "A high-performance optical lattice clock based on bosonic atoms." arXiv 1803.03157 (2018). doi

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Kock, O., He, W., Swierad, D., Smith, L., Hughes, J., Bongs, K., and Signh, Y. "Laser controlled atom source for optical clocks." Scientific Reports 6 37321 (2016). 37321. doi: 10.1038/srep37321

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Swierad, D., Hafner, S., Vogt, S., Venon, B., Holleville, D., Bize, S., Kolusa, A., et al. "Ultra-stable clock laser system development towards space applications." Scientific Reports 6 33973 (2016). doi: 10.1038/srep33973

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Bongs, K. et al. "The UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Metrology." In Quantum Optics 9900, 990009 (2016), SPIE Europe Conference Proceedings. doi: 10.1117/12.2232143, eprint: 39466/1/

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Origlia, S., Schiller, S, Pramod, M.S., Smith, L., Singh, Y. et al. "Development of a strontium optical lattice clock for the SOC mission on the ISS." In Quantum Optics 9900, 990003 (2016), SPIE Europe Conference Proceedings. doi: 10.1117/12.2229473, arXiv: 1603.06062

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Bongs, K., Holynski, M., and Singh, Y. "Ψ in the sky", Nature Physics 11, 615-617 (2015). doi: 10.1038/nphys3427

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Bongs, K., Singh, Y., Smith, L., et al. "Development of a strontium optical lattice clock for the SOC mission on the ISS", Comptes Rendus Physique 16, 553-564 (2015). doi: 10.1016/j.crhy.2015.03.009, arXiv: 1503.08457

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Olmos B., Yu, D., Singh, Y., Schreck, F., Bongs, K., and Lesanovsky, I. "Long-range interacting many-body systems with alkaline-earth-metal atoms." Physical Review Letters 110, 143602 (2013). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.143602, arXiv: 1211.4537

Ph.D. Theses

Jha, Abhilash Kumar (2025) Towards the realisation of a stationary optical lattice clock based on strontium atoms

 

Griffiths, Darren (2024) Synchronization of Networked Staring Radar with Low Phase Noise Photonic Oscillators

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Kannanthara, Jithin (2023) Performance Analysis of Quantum-enabled Radar Systems through Modelling and Experimentation

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Barron, Richard (2022) Slowing atoms with a permanent magnet Zeeman slower & investigating fibre phase noise on an optical clock system

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Viswam, Sruthi (2020) Advanced laser frequency stabilisation systems for mobile strontium optical lattice clocks

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Ubaid, Qasim Hassan (2020) Towards a strontium based stationary optical lattice clock

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Menchetti, Marco (2019) Experimental set-up for realising long-range interaction using strontium atoms in an optical lattice

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Swierad, Dariusz Tadeusz (2018) Stable and ultra-stable laser systems for a mobile strontium optical clock.

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He, Wei (2017) Towards miniaturized strontium optical lattice clock.

 

Smith, Lyndsie Laura (2016) A transportable strontium optical lattice clock towards space.

 

Kock, Bjorn Ole (2013) Magneto-optical trapping of strontium for use as a mobile frequency reference.

Other publications

 Greetham, Helen (2019) Anthea & The Tortoise

Abhilash Jha talks to Joe Barker about getting into a Physics PhD and the work on the transportable clock in a podcast (30mins) link

In the News

Is it a pigeon or a drone? The next big challenge for radar systems (The Times, March 2025) Click here to view 

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Quantum Clocks: Ticking away toward a new era of Precision Measurement (SPIE, 01 March 2023) Click here to view

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Quantum Enabled Radar Reseach (Rohde & Schwartz, May 2023) Click here to view

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