Theses by JILA Graduate Students


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An, Yong Qiang (2003) Spectroscopic Studies of Optical Second-Harmonic Generation from Si(001) Surfaces

Andrews, Django H. (2006) Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Anthony, Eric B. (1998) Laser Probing of Transport Properties and Rotational Alignment of N2+ Drifted in He

Ballard, Joshua B. (2003) Dynamic Phase and Population Control of State Selected Wave Packets in Li2

Barber, Zeb (2007) Ytterbium Optical Lattice Clock

Barbera, Jack (2007) Combining Research in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Education

Bartels, Randall A. (2002) Coherent Control of Atoms and Molecules

Baylor, Martha-Elizabeth (2007) Analog Optoelectronic Independent Component Analysis for Radio Frequency Signals

Bennett, Stephen C. (1998) High-Precision Measurements in Atomic Cesium Supporting a Low-Energy Test of the Standard Model

Bhat, Rajiv (2008) Bosons in Rotating Optical Lattices

Bhongale, Satyan Gopal (2004) Ultracold Bose gases - from the Gross-Pitaevskii to the fractional quantum Hall regime

Blackmon, Bradley W. (1998) Temperature Dependent Rate Constant for the OH + O3 Chain Reaction via High Resolution Infrared Laser Absorption Methods

Bortolotti, Daniele Carlo Enrico (2007) Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Bose-Fermi Mixtures

Boyd, Martin M. (2007) High Precision Spectroscopy of Strontium in an Optical Lattice: Towards a New Standard for Frequency and Time

Burke, James P. (1999) Theoretical Investigation of Cold Alkali Atom Collisions

Calvi, Ryan M. D. (2007) Negative Ion Photoelectron Imaging Spectroscopy of Iodine Monobromide and Copper Hydrides

Chen, Zhigang (2006) Spectrally resolved optical study of transient spin dynamics in semiconductors

Claussen, Neil R. (2003) Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates near a Feshbach resonance in 85Rb

Coddington, I.R. (2004) Vortices in a Highly Rotating Bose Condensed Gas

Corwin, Kristan L. (1999) A Circularly-Polarized Optical Dipole Trap and Other Developments in Laser Trapping of Atoms

Culhane, Michael P. P. (2000) Measurements of the Power Spectrum and Redshift Distortions of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey

Curtis, Elizabeth Anne (2003) Quenched narrow-line laser cooling of 40Ca with application to an optical clock based on ultracold neutral Ca atoms

Damiao, Valeria B. (2000) Developments in Photorefractive Two-Beam Coupling Systems

Davis, Scott (1999) High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Slit-Jet Cooled Transient Molecules: From van der Waals Clusters, to Hydrogen Bound Dimers, to Small Organic Radicals

Delaney, Nicole D. (1999) Understanding the Photodissociation Dynamics of Molecular Cluster Ions

DeRosa, Marc Lyle (2001) Dynamics in the Upper Solar Convection Zone

Du, Shengwang (2005) Atom-chip Bose-Einstein condensation in a portable vacuum cell

Dunn, Josh W. (2007) Stochastic Models of Atom-Photon Dynamics with Applications to Cooling Quantum Gases

Eaton, Hilary K. (1999) Studies of Nonlinear Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Bulk Materials

Ensher, Jason R. (1998) The First Experiments with Bose-Einstein Condensation of 87Rb

Fair, Joanna R. (2000) Alignment, Vibrational, and Steric Effects in Unimolecular and Bimolecular Systems: Towards an Understanding of Chemical Reactions in Quantum-State Detail

Foreman, Seth M. (2007) Femtosecond Frequency Combs for Optical Clocks and Timing Transfer

Fotheringham, Edeline (2003) Microwave Signal Processing with Photorefractive Dynamic Holography

Gagnon, Etienne (2008) Femtosecond molecular dynamics driven by extreme ultra violet radiation

Gaudiosi, David M. (2006) High Power Ultrafast Laser Design and High-order Harmonic Generation in Capillary Discharge Plasmas

Gibson, Emily Abbott (2004) Quasi-Phase Matching of Soft X-ray Light from High-Order Harmonic Generation using Waveguide Structures

Goldwin, Jonathan Michael (2005) Quantum Degeneracy and Interactions in the 87Rb -40K Bose-Fermi Mixture

Granger, Brian E. (2001) Quantum and Semiclassical Scattering Matrix Theory for Atomic Photoabsorption in External Fields

Haljan, Paul C. (2003) Vortices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Hamilton, Edward Lees (2003) Photoionization, Photodissociation, and Long-Range Bond Formation in Molecular Rydberg States

Harber, David Murray (2005) Experimental investigation of interactions between ultracold atoms and room-temperature surfaces

Heinz, Sebastian (2000) Beams, Bursts, Bubbles, and Bullets: Relativistic Outflows in Astrophysics

Holman, Kevin W. (2005) Distribution of an Ultrastable Frequency Reference Using Optical Frequency Combs

Hudson, Eric R. (2006) Experiments on Cold Molecules Produced via Stark Deceleration

Hughes, Steven Michael (2007) An Integrated Optical-Holographic Chemical-Vapor Sensor

Johnson, Kelsey (2001) The Properties of Super Star Clusters in a Sample of Starburst Galaxies

King, Brian E. (1999) Quantum State Engineering and Information Processing with Trapped Ions

Koralek, Jacob D. (2006)Laser Based Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy and High Tc Superconductivity

Lei, Chi-Fong (2003) Using ultrafast extreme-ultraviolet pulses for time-resolved dynamics of molecules chemisorbed on metal surfaces

Lewandowski, Heather J. (2002) Coherences and correlations in an ultracold Bose gas

Lorenz, Virginia O. (2006) Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Non-Markovian Dynamics in a Dense Atomic Vapor

Ludlow, Andrew D. (2008) The Strontium Optical Lattice Clock: Optical Spectroscopy with Sub-Hertz Accuracy

Lytle, Amy L. (2008) Phase Matching and Coherence of High-Order Harmonic Generation in Hollow Waveguides

Marian, Adela (2005) Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy for Optical Frequency Metrology and Coherent Interactions

Matthews, Michael R. (1999) Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensation

McDonough, Laurie A. (2004) Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Water Uptake in Polymer Photoresists

Milstein, J.N. (2004) From Cooper Pairs to Molecules: Effective field theories for ultra-cold atomic gases near Feshbach resonances

Nugent-Glandorf, Lora (2001) Time resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with ultrafast soft x-ray light

Obrecht, John Michael (2007) Measurement of the Temperature Dependence of the Casimir-Polder Force

Papp, Scott B. (2007) Experiments with a two-species Bose-Einstein condensate utilizing widely tunable interparticle interactions

Paul, Ariel J. (2007) Coherent EUV Light from High-Order Harmonic Generation: Enhancement and Applications to Lensless Diffractive Imaging

Paul, Bradley D. (1999) Cone emission from single-filaments

Pollack, Scott E. (2005) Analytic and Interferometric Techniques for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Quraishi, Qudsia (2007) Optical Frequency Combs: Properties and Applications

Ramond, Tanya M. (2001) Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Alkyl Peroxides, Alkoxides, and Group VIII Transition Metal Oxides

Redfield, Seth (2003) The Three-Dimensional Physical Structure of the Local Interstellar Medium

Regal, Cindy (2006) Experimental realization of BCS-BEC crossover physics with a Fermi gas of atoms

Roberts, Jacob Lyman (2001) Bose-Einstein Condensates with Tunable Atom-atom Interactions: The First Experiments with 85Rb BECs

Sanford, Todd J. (2004) Photodissociation Dynamics and Photoelectron Imaging Spectroscopy of Anions and Anion Clusters

Schwarz, Joshua P. (1998) The Free-Fall Determination of the Universal Constant of Gravity

Schwindt, Peter D. D. (2003) Magnetic Traps and Guides for Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Atom Chip: Progress toward a Coherent Atom Waveguide Beamsplitter

Seaman, Brian T. (2008) Quantum Dynamics of Condensates, Atomtronic Systems, and Photon Fluids

Squires, Matthew B. (2008) High repetition rate Bose-Einstein condensate production in a compact, transportable vacuum system

Stowe, Matthew C. (2008) Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy and High-Resolution Coherent Control

Swisdak, Michael Marchand, III (1999) The Effects of Large-Scale Convection on Solar Eigenfrequencies

Thompson, Matthew A. (2007) From Femtoseconds to Nanoseconds: Simulation of IBr- Photodissociation Dynamics in CO2 Clusters

Ticknor, Christopher Carl (2005) Controlling Cold Collisions of Polar Molecules with External Fields

Tonzani, S. (2006) Electron-initiated chemistry in polyatomic molecules

Vasil, Geoffrey M. (2007) Topics in Rotating and Magnetized Fluids

Veras, Dimitri George (2007) The Orbital Evolution of Extrasolar Planets After Formation

von Stecher, Javier (2008) Trapped Ultracold Atoms with Tunable Interactions

Votava, Ondrej (1999) Vibrationally mediated photodissociation of water and water containing complexes: state-to-state dynamics of intra- and inter-molecular collisions

Wachter, Jochen (2007) Resonant and Nonresonant Interactions in Cold Quantum Gases

Wagner, Nicholas (2008) High-Order Harmonic Generation from Molecules

Wang, Ying-Ju (2005) An On-Chip Atom Interferometer Using a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Whitney, Erin Sue (2006) High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy: Jet-Cooled Halogenated Methyl Radicals and Reactive Scattering Dynamics in an Atom + Polyatom System

Williams, James E. (1999) The Preparation of Topological in a Strongly-Coupled Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate

Zhang, Tianhao (2008) Optical Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductors

Zirbel, Joshua (2008) Ultracold Fermionic Feshbach Molecules



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