General News
May 2023
Jonathan Tekverk Joined our group
December 2022
Chi-Chih (Jacky) Chen Joined our group
9 Aug 2022
Xiaoyang Liu Defended her Ph.D. thesis
11 May 2021
Ian Schwartz Presented his MSI thesis
Spring 2021
Edoardo Buonocore Joined our group
11 June 2020
Hal Metcalf Turned 80.
6 December 2019
Brian Arnold defended his Ph.D. thesis, December, 2019.
June 2019
Eli Rafkin joined our group in June 2019.
September 2019
Ian Schwartz joined our group in September 2019.
28 June 2018
Postdoc Mary Lyon
(now Smith)
gave birth to a baby girl.
January 2018
Marty Cohen celebrated his 80th birthday.
July 2017
Taichi Inaki presented his MSI thesis to his committee.
October 2017:- RMP review paper published: 041001. Read article
July 2017 - Congratulations to Taichi (Tai) Inaki who succesfully presented his MSI thesis "Optical Phase Coherence in the Adiabatic Rapid Passage Force."
June 2017 - Mary Lyon joined our group as a postdoc.
2015 - New book published with Peter van der Straten. Read more here.
2015 - Congratulations to John Elgin who succesfully defended his PhD thesis "Study of the Velocity Dependence of the Adiabatic Rapid Passage Force."
2014 - Congratulations to Chris Corder who succesfully defended his PhD thesis "Optical Forces on Metastable Helium".
2013 - Congratulations to Yuan Sun who succesfully defended his PhD thesis "Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage between Metastable and Rydberg States of Helium".
2012 - Congratulations to Dan Stack who succesfully defended his PhD thesis "Optical Forces from Periodic Adiabatic Rapid Passage Sequences on Metastable Helium Atoms
2011 - Congratulations to Xiaoxu Lu who succesfully defended her PhD thesis "Excitation of Helium to Rydberg States Using STIRAP"
Experiment News
All three main experiments presented at the 2012 DAMOP meeting in
Garden Grove, California. You can find links to the posters presented
below:
ARP
-Velocity
Dependence of the Optical Force Produced by Adiabatic Rapid Passage
Bichromatic Force
-Toward Laser
Cooling without Spontaneous Emission
STIRAP
-Polarization
Effects in STIRAP Between Triplet He States
-STIRAP
Production of Rydberg Helium: Effects of Thermal Radiation and Level
Multiplicity