Summer/Fall 2007

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  X-Ray Demolition Derby

  X-rays are notorious for damaging molecules, including those in our bodies. For these reasons, it’s important to understand exactly how radiation interacts with, damages, or destroys specific chemicals....   Read More »

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  Reflection Grisms; For Fast Light that’s Just Right

  Fellows Ralph Jimenez and Henry Kapteyn and their groups recently helped develop optical technology that will make femtosecond laser experiments much simpler to perform, opening the door to using such lasers in many more laboratories...   Read More »

  
  
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  A Failure to Communicate

  Communication keeps the array coherent, i.e., the phases of all condensates remain locked to each other. But something interesting happens when the tiny superatoms stop communicating among themselves...   Read More »

  
  
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  Echoes of Hidden Worlds

  In Fellow Steve Cundiff’s lab, echoes of light are illuminating the quantum world. Former Graduate Student Gina Lorenz used a technique known as echo peak shift spectroscopy to probe the interactions of potassium atoms in a dense vapor...   Read More »

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  Discovering New Planets

  The way students learn astronomy is nearly the reverse of the way early astronomers learned astronomy. For instance, students might first learn Newton’s law of gravity and Kepler’s laws of planetary motion...   Read More »