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Lewis Ruks

Research Scientist

Basic Research Laboratories, NTT, Inc., Japan

Theoretical research into cooperative quantum light-matter phenomena and applications.

Career

Positions

  • Apr 2025 - Present

    Research Scientist

    Basic Research Laboratories, NTT, Inc.
    NTT Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Information

  • Mar 2023 - Mar 2025

    Research Associate

  • Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

    Senior Research Fellow

    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

  • Sep 2017 - Oct 2022

    Ph.D., Quantum Optics

    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2017

    Bachelor's and Master's, Mathematics

    University of Oxford

Publications

Selected publications

Presentations

Conferences

  • 2025

    PIERS | Chiba

    Invited talk: Light propagation in optical elements formed from layered atomic arrays

  • 2025

    Quantum Optics XI | Krakow

    Poster: Superradiant pulse trains in inhomogeneously broadened emitter ensembles

  • 2025

    Quantum Innovation | Osaka

    Poster: Negative refraction of light in an atomic medium

  • 2024

    ISNTT | Atsugi

    Poster: Negative refraction of light in an atomic medium

  • 2024

    Photon | Swansea

    Oral: Negative refraction of light in an atomic medium

  • 2024

    Ultracold Atoms | Okinawa

    Oral: Light propagation in layered atomic arrays

  • 2024

    APS March Meeting | Minneapolis

    Oral: Collective and nonlinear dynamics in spatially structured and spectrally inhomogeneous emitter ensembles

  • 2023

    NANOP | Barcelona

    Oral: Coherent optical elements formed collectively from ensembles of rare-earth ions embedded into optical waveguides

  • 2023

    SPIE-CLP Advanced Photonics | San Diego

    Oral: Coherent dynamics of inhomogeneously broadened ensembles in waveguide QED

  • 2021

    Quantum Nanophotonics Benasque | Online

    Poster: Asymptotic long-range interactions of quantum emitters through structured photonic baths

  • 2019

    Les Houches

    Poster: Nanofiber-mediated optical binding between atoms

  • 2019

    ONNA | Okinawa

    Poster: Nanofiber-mediated optical binding between atoms

  • 2019

    ColOpt Winterschool | Herrsching

    Oral and poster: Nanofiber-mediated optical binding between atoms