Current interests

Cat Fitzpatrick is based at NPL, where she is using quantum-dot single-photon sources to carry out quantum optics experiments.

Biography

Cat received an MPhys in Physics from the University of Surrey in 2006. This included a research placement at the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University.

She started an EngD in Optics and Photonics in 2008, which forms a collaboration between NPL and Heriot-Watt University. She spent her first year constructing a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector system at Heriot-Watt University.

Publications

• A superconducting nanowire single-photon detector system for single-photon source characterization
  C. R. Fitzpatrick, C. M. Natarajan, R. E. Warburton, G. S. Buller, B. Baek, S. Nam, S. Miki, Z. Wang, M. Sasaki, A. G. Sinclair and R. H. Hadfield
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 7681, (2010)
  
  
• Investigation into the B(E2) anomaly in ¹⁴⁴Nd using Coulomb excitation
  C. R. Fitzpatrick, V. Werner, R. F. Casten, E. Williams, H. Ai, C. W. Beausang, R. B. Cakirli, G. Gurdal, A. Heinz, E. A. McCutchan, D. A. Meyer, E. Novitski, J. Qian1, and R. Winkler
  Phys. Rev. C 78, 034309 (2008)
  
  

Contact details

Email: cat.fitzpatrick@npl.co.uk
Tel: +44 20 8943 8634