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PERSONAL INFORMATION

William E. Cooke, Professor of Physics
January 1, 1997

Small Hall 220
(757) 221-3512
(757) 221-3540 (FAX)
cooke@physics.wm.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in physics (1976), MIT
  • B.S. in physics (1972), College of William and Mary.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor (1995- ), College of William and Mary
  • Professor (1988-95), Associate Professor (1983-88), Assistant Professor (1978-83), University of Southern California.

HONORS, PRIZES AND AWARDS

  • Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientist Award (1984).
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1980-84).
  • Member, US Advisory Committee to the International Optics Committee (1993-96 ).
  • Member, National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Line Spectra of the Elements - Atomic Spectroscopy (1987-90).
  • Fellow, American Physical Society (APS): Division of Electron and Atom Physics (DEAP) Program Committee (1981-83), DEAP Publications Committee (1983); Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP) Executive Committee (1990); DAMOP Fellowship Committee (1992-93); APS Education Committee (1990-92), Chair in 1992, Vice-Chair in 1991; Steering Committee, joint APS-AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers) project for the Research Physicist in Undergraduate Curriculum Development; Laser Science Topical Group Executive Committee (1993-95); Forum on Education Nominating Committee (1995); Division of Laser Science Executive Committee (1996).
  • Member, Optical Society of America: Chair, Atomic Spectroscopy Technical Group (1983-85); Executive Committee of the Technical Council (1985); William F. Meggars Award Committee (1987-89), Chair in 1988.
  • Panel Co-chair, NSF ILI Review Board, 1995.
  • Chair, Atomic Physics Gordon Conference, (Wolfeboro, NH, 1991); Vice-Chair, Atomic Physics Gordon Conference (Wolfeboro, NH, 1989).
  • Member, NSF REU Review Panel, 1990.
  • Co-chair, Topical Meeting on High Energy Density Physics with Subpicosecond Lasers (Snowbird, Utah, 1989).
  • Editor, JOSA B Feature Issue on Multiple Excitations of Atoms (May, 1987).
  • Co-chair, Topical Meeting on Multiple Excitations of Atoms (Seattle, October 1986).
  • Project Specialist, Chinese University Development Project (1984).

RESEARCH

See attached for 70 refereed publications, 1 edited volume, 14 publications in non-refereed conference proceedings resulting from invited papers, and 23 invited talks at major conferences.

Refereed Publications:

  • "Technique for measuring the linewidth of autoionizing Rydberg states", Grzegorz Waligorski, Lei Zhou, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A55, 1544 (1997).
  • "Residual-ion orientation after autoionization", G.T. Xu, Xiao Wang, J.G. Story, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 47, R2438 (1993).
  • "Measurement of the 6p1/2l branching ratios of the (6pns)J=1 state of barium", G.T. Xu, Xiao Wang, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 48 838 (1993).
  • "Spectroscopy of autoionizing states using state-selective ion detection", G.T. Xu, Xiao Wang, and W.E. Cooke, J. Phys. B 26, L103-L108 (1993).
  • "High-angular momentum transfer during the autoionization of the 6p1/2nd J=3 states of barium", G.T. Xu and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 48, 2054 (1993).
  • "Spectroscopy of the 7snf states of barium", Xiao Wang and W.E. Cooke Phys. Rev. A 47 4955 (1993).
  • "Spectroscopy of the 7sng states of barium", Xiao Wang and W.E. Cooke Phys. Rev. A 47 1778 (1993).
  • "Photoionization of atoms with ultra-short laser pulses", R.R. Freeman, P.H. Bucksbaum, W.E. Cooke, G. Gibson, T.J. McIlrath, and L.D. Van Woerkom, chapter in Atoms in Intense Laser Fields, a volume of Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, M. Gavrila, ed. (1992).
  • "Wavefunction Shock Waves", Xiao Wang and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 46, 4347 (1992).
  • "Amplitude Modulation of Atomic Wavefunctions", Xiao Wang and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 46, Rapid Communications R2201 (1992).
  • "Wave-Front Autoionization: Classical Decay of Two-Electron Atoms", Xiao Wang and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 976 (1991).
  • "Intraconfiguration interactions in barium 6p1/2nf autoionizing states", X. Wang, J.G. Story, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 43, 3535 (1991).
  • "Nonradiative transfer of momentum from an electromagnetic wave to a charged particle", W.E. Cooke and Robin Shakeshaft, Phys. Rev. A 43, 251 (1990).
  • "Multiphoton processes in an intense laser field, IV. The static-field limit", Robin Shakeshaft, R.M. Potvliege, Martin Dörr, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 42, 1656 (1990).
  • "The complex spatial structure of ion yield arising from high intensity multiphoton ionization", T.J. McIlrath, W.E. Cooke, L.D. Van Woerkom and R.R. Freeman, Phys. Rev. A 40, 2770 (1989).
  • "Saturation effects in the spatial and energy distributions in short-pulse, high-intensity multiphoton ionization", L.D. Van Woerkom, R.R. Freeman, W.E. Cooke, and T.J. McIlrath, Jour. Of Mod. Opt. 36,817 (1989).
  • "Spectroscopy of the 6p3/2np states of barium", J.G. Story, E.G. Yap and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 39, 5127 (1989).
  • "Shake-off measurements of electron-ion scattering phase shifts", J.G. Story and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 39, 4610 (1989).
  • "Energy-dependent branching ratios of autoionizing states", L.D. Van Woerkom and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 37, 3326, (1988).
  • "Efficient multiphoton excitation of multiply excited states", J.G. Story, L.D. Van Woerkom, and W.E. Cooke, JOSA B 4,811 (1987).
  • "Two step stabilization of autoionizing states", J.G.Story, L.D. Van Woerkom, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 34,4508 (1986).
  • "Complementary branching ratios by satellite excitation", L.D. Van Woerkom and W.E. Cooke, Phys.Rev Lett. 57, 1711 (1986).
  • "Measurement of the lifetime of the metastable 5d3/226d3/2, J=0 autoionizing state of barium", L.D. Van Woerkom, J.G. Story, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 34, 3457 (1986).
  • "Wavelength dependence of laser-induced sputtering from the (111) surface of BaF2", J. Reif, H. Fallgren, W.E. Cooke, and E. Matthias, Appl. Phys. Lett. 49, 770 (1986).
  • "Closed form expression for two photon core excitation of Rydberg states", W.E. Cooke and C.L. Cromer, Phys. Rev. A 33, 3529 (1986).
  • "Autoionization inhibited by internal interferences", J. Neukammer, H. Rinneberg, G. Jonsson, W.E. Cooke, H. Hieronymus, A. Konig, K. Vietzke, and H. Springer-Bolk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55,1979 (1985).
  • "Multichannel quantum-defect theory and an equivalent N-level system", W.E. Cooke and C.L. Cromer, Phys. Rev. A 32, 2725 (1985).
  • "Angular momentum dependence of autoionization rates in doubly excited Rydberg states of barium", L.A. Bloomfield, R.R. Freeman, W.E. Cooke and J. Bokor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 2234 (1984).
  • "Two-photon spectroscopy of 7sn'd autoionizing states of barium", R.M. Jopson, R.R. Freeman, W.E. Cooke, and J. Bokor, Phys. Rev. A 29, 3154 (1984).
  • "Electron shake-up in two photon excitation of core electrons to Rydberg autoionizing states", R.M. Jopson, R.R. Freeman, W.E. Cooke and J. Bokor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1640 (1983).
  • "Power dependent lineshapes of transitions to autoionizing states", S.A. Bhatti and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 28, 756 (1983).
  • "Energy and angular distributions of electrons ejected from the Ba(6pjns1/2)1 states", W. Sandner, R. Kachru, K.A. Safinya, F. Gounand, W.E. Cooke and T.F. Gallagher, Phys. Rev. A 27,1717 (1983).
  • "Four-wave parametric mixing in optically inverted barium ions", R.R. Freeman, J. Bokor, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 26,3029 (1982).
  • "Spectroscopic determination of final products of autoionization", W.E. Cooke and S.A. Bhatti, Phys. Rev. A 26, 391 (1982).
  • "Autoionization pumped laser", J. Bokor, R.R. Freeman, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1242 (1982).
  • "Spectroscopic decay-rate measurements below the laser linewidth",W.E. Cooke, S.A. Bhatti, and C.L. Cromer, Opt. Lett. 7,69 (1982).
  • "Blackbody-radiation-induced Stark shifts in perturbed Rydberg series" T.F. Gallagher, W.Sandner, K.A. Safinya, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 23, 2065 (1981).
  • "Analysis of the Rydberg Character of the 5d7d, 1D2 states of barium", S.A. Bhatti, C.L. Cromer and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 24, 161 (1981).
  • "The observation of external screening in the 7snd states of Ba", T.F. Gallagher, K.A. Safinya, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 24, 601 (1981).
  • "Doubly excited alkaline earth atoms", T.F. Gallagher, K.A. Safinya, and W.E. Cooke, in Laser Spectroscopy IV, ed. H. Walther and W. Rothe, p. 273 (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1979).
  • "The effects of black body radiation on highly excited atoms", W.E. Cooke and T.F. Gallagher, Phys. Rev. A 21, 588 (1980).
  • "Energy analysis of the electrons ejected in the autoionization of Ba(6pj20s1/2) J states", T.F. Gallagher, K.A. Safinya, and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 21, 148 (1980).
  • "Lifetimes of K s and d states", T.F. Gallagher and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 20, 670 (1979).
  • "Boxcar controller for low repetition-rate use", W.E. Cooke and T.F. Gallagher, Rev. Sci. Instr. 50, 1490 (1979).
  • "Collisional depopulation of excited Na s states by He, Ar, and Xe", T.F. Gallagher and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 19, 2161 (1979).
  • "Measurement of 1D21F3 microwave transitions in strontium Rydberg states using selective resonance ionization", W.E. Cooke and T.F. Gallagher, Opt. Lett. 4, 1173 (1979).
  • "Interactions of black body radiation with Rydberg atoms", T.F. Gallagher and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 835 (1979).
  • "The detection of black body radiation with Rydberg atoms", T.F. Gallagher and W.E. Cooke, Appl. Phys. Lett. 34, 369 (1979).
  • "A calculation of autoionization rates for high angular momentum Rydberg states", W.E. Cooke and T.F. Gallagher, Phys. Rev. A 19, 2151 (1979).
  • "Observation of pair splittings in the autoionization spectrum of barium", W.E. Cooke and T.F. Gallagher, Phys. Rev. Lett. 41, 1648 (1978).
  • "Field ionization of excited states of potassium", T.F. Gallagher and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 19, 694 (1978).
  • "Fine structure and polarizabilities of highly excited d states of K", T.F. Gallagher and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 18, 2510 (1978).
  • "Resonance ionization velocimeter", S.A. Edelstein and W.E. Cooke, J. Appl. Phys. 50, 3023 (1979).
  • "Collisional dephasing of the Na 13d-13f transition using the Ramsey method of separated rf fields", T.F. Gallagher and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 19, 820 (1979).
  • "Collisional deactivation of higher Na s and manifold states by N2", L.M. Humphrey, T.F. Gallagher, W.E. Cooke, and S.A. Edelstein, Phys. Rev. A 18, 1383 (1978).
  • "Collisional angular momentum mixing of f states of Na", T.F. Gallagher, W.E. Cooke, and S.A. Edelstein, Phys. Rev. A 18, 904 (1978).
  • "The dependence of Rydberg state field ionization threshholds on |ml|", W.E. Cooke and T.F. Gallagher, Phys. Rev. A 17, 1226 (1978).
  • "Doubly excited autoionizing Rydberg states of Sr", W.E. Cooke, T.F. Gallagher, S.A. Edelstein and R.M. Hill, Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 178 (1978).
  • "Collisional deactivation of the 5s and 5p states of Na by N2", T.F. Gallagher, W.E. Cooke, and S.A. Edelstein, Phys. Rev. A 17, 125 (1978).
  • "Molecular beam magnetic resonance measurement of the spin rotational interaction in RbKr", W.E. Cooke and R.R. Freeman, Phys. Rev. A 16, 2473 (1977).
  • "Measurement of nd(n+1)p intervals in sodium Rydberg states", W.E. Cooke, T.F. Gallagher, R.M. Hill, and S.A. Edelstein, Phys. Rev. A 16, 2473 (1977).
  • "Magnetic moment of the proton in H2O in Bohr magnetons", W.D. Phillips, W.E. Cooke, and D. Kleppner, Metrologia 13, 179 (1977).
  • "Field ionization of highly excited states of sodium", T.F. Gallagher, L.M. Humphrey, W.E. Cooke, R.M. Hill, and S.A. Edelstein, Phys. Rev. A 16, 273 (1977).
  • "Resonance measurements of df and dg intervals in lithium Rydberg states", W.E. Cooke, T.F. Gallagher, R.M. Hill, and S.A. Edelstein, Phys. Rev. A 16, 1141 (1977).
  • "Collisional angular-momentum mixing of highly excited Na (n2D) states of N2 and CO", T.F. Gallagher, R.E. Olsen, W.E. Cooke, S.A. Edelstein, and R.M. Hill, Phys. Rev. A 16, 441 (1977).
  • "Fine structure intervals of f states in highly excited p and d states of sodium", T.F. Gallagher, W.E. Cooke, S.A. Edelstein, and R.M. Hill, Phys. Rev. A 16, 273 (1977).
  • "Fine structure intervals and polarizabilities of highly excited p and d states of sodium", T.F. Gallagher, L.M. Humphrey, R.M. Hill, W.E. Cooke, and, Phys. Rev. A 15, 1937 (1977).
  • "Magnetic moment of the proton in H2O in units of the Bohr magneton", W.D. Phillips, W.E. Cooke, and D. Kleppner in Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants 5, edited by J.H. Sanders and A.H. Wapstra, p. 492 (Plenum Press, New York, 1976).
  • "Argon-induced g-factor shift in potassium" R. R. Freeman and W.E. Cooke, Phys. Rev. A 13, 1692 (1976).
  • "Magnetic moment of the proton in H2O in Bohr magnetons", W.D. Phillips, W.E. Cooke, and D. Kleppner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 1619 (1975).

Edited Volumes:

  • Feature Issue of JOSA B on Multiple Excitations of Atoms. May 1987.

Papers published in non-refereed conference proceedings resulting from invited talks:

  • "Asymmetry Spectroscopy", W. E. Cooke, G. H. Zhu, and L. Zhou, in Laser Spectroscopy XI, ed. T. F. Gallagher (Springer-Verlag, 1990).
  • "The Prospect for Multiphoton Effects Using Soft X-Rays From Laser Driven Plasmas", R.R. Freeman, S.C. Davey, D.L. Windt, H.M. Milchberg, W.E. Cooke, and L.D. Van Woerkom, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multiphoton Physics.(1990).
  • "Spatial Distributions of Ions in Short-Pulse, High-Intensity, Multiphoton Ionization", R.R. Freeman, L.D. Van Woerkom, W.E. Cooke, and T.J. McIlrath, in Laser Spectroscopy IX, ed. (Springer-Verlag, 1990).
  • "On the problem of "new" structure in multiphoton ionization introduced by short-pulse, high-intensity lasers", R.R. Freeman, W.E. Cooke, L.D. Van Woerkom, and T.J. McIlrath in Fundamentals of Laser Interactions II, F. Ehlotsky, ed., p.15, (Springer-Verlag, 1989).
  • "Electron Correlations in Time and Space", W.E. Cooke, J.G. Story, and X. Wang, in Fundamentals of Laser Interactions II, F. Ehlotsky, ed., p.149 (Springer-Verlag, 1989).
  • "Complementary branching ratios by satellite excitation", L.D. Van Woerkom and W.E. Cooke, in Short Wavelength Coherent Radiation: Generation and Applications, ed. D.T. Atwood and J. Bokor, p. 447(AIP, New York, 1986).
  • "Laser investigations of electron correlations: doubly excited states of Ba", R.R. Freeman, L.A. Bloomfield, J. Bokor, and W.E. Cooke, in Laser Spectroscopy VII, ed. T. Hensch,(Springer-Verlag, New York, 1985).
  • "Planetary atoms", W.E. Cooke, R.R. Freeman, L.A. Bloomfield, and J. Bokor in Fundamentals of Laser Interactions, ed. F. Ehlotsky, p. 187 (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1985).
  • "Multiphoton excitation of doubly excited states of two-electron atoms", R.R. Freeman, L.A. Bloomfield, W.E. Cooke J. Bokor, and R.M. Jopson, in Multiphoton Processes, ed. P. Lambropoulos and S.J. Smith, p. 42 (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984).
  • "Correlations in highly excited two electron atoms: planetary atoms", W.E. Cooke, R.M. Jopson, L.A. Bloomfield, R. R. Freeman and J. Bokor, in Laser Techniques in XUV Spectroscopy, ed. S.E. Harris and T. Lucatorto, p. 91 (AIP, New York, 1984).
  • "Planetary atoms", R.R. Freeman, R.M. Jopson, J. Bokor, and W.E. Cooke, in Laser Spectroscopy VI, ed.H.P.Weber andW.Luthy, p. 220 (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1983).
  • "Spectroscopic measurements of sub-laser linewidth autoionization rates",W.E. Cooke, S.A. Bhatti, and C.L. Cromer, in Laser Techniques for Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, ed.T.J. McIlrath and R.R. Freeman, p. 153 (AIP, New York, 1982).
  • "Optical second harmonic generation by a single laser beam in an isotropicmedium", R.R. Freeman, J.E. Bjorkholm, R. Panock and W.E. Cooke, in Laser Spectroscopy V, ed. A.R.W. McKellar, T. Oka, and B.P. Stoicheff, p. 435 (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1981).
  • "Two electron Rydberg states", W.E. Cooke, in Atomic Physics VII, ed. D. Kleppner and F.Pipkin, p. 167 (Plenum Press, New York, 1981).

Invited Talks:

  • ITAMP/Harvard Workshop on Multi-electron Atoms in Intense Laser Fields, Cambridge, MA, October 17, 1995 "Reaching the Strong Coupling Limit with Weak Lasers".
  • XI Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference and Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, Portland, OR, September 13, 1995, "Modulating Atomic Wave Functions".
  • Congress of American Physical Societies, Quebec, June 14, 1995, "Modulating Atomic Wave Functions".
  • XV Contractor's meeting of the Atomic Physics Program of the DOE, Lexington, KY, October 1994, "Modulating Atomic Wave Functions".
  • Annual Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society, Reno, NV May 1994, "Amplitude Modulation of Atomic Wave Functions".
  • Eleventh International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, "Hot Topics" Symposium, Hampstead, VA, July 1993, "Asymmetry Spectroscopy".
  • International Conference on Fundamentals of Laser Interactions II, Obergurgl, Austria, March 1989, "Electron Correlations in Time and Space".
  • International Symposium on Atoms in Strong Fields, Grainau, West Germany, September 1988, "Complex Spatial Structure from Intense Field Multiphoton Ionization".
  • Gordon Conference on Atomic Physics, Wolfeboro, NH, July 1987,"Experimental Studies of Electron Correlations in Doubly Excited States".
  • International Conference on Interfering Resonances and Stabilized States in the Continuum, Gif sur Yvette, France, April 1987, "Examples of Continuum Interferences: Stabilization and Complementarity".
  • First International Conference on Laser Science, Dallas, TX, November 1985, "Planetary Atoms".
  • Annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., October 1985, "Planetary Atoms".
  • Gordon Conference on Atomic Physics, July 1985, "Planetary Atoms".
  • International Conference on Fundamentals of Laser Interactions", Obergurgl, Austria, March 1985, "Planetary Atoms".
  • Third International Conference on Multiphoton Phenomena, Iraklion, Crete, September 1984, "Dynamic Shake-Up".
  • Second Topical Conference on Laser Techniques in the Extreme Ultraviolet, Boulder, CO, March 1984, "Planetary Atoms".
  • Annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, New Orleans, LA, October 1983, "Planetary Atoms".
  • Gordon Conference on Atomic Physics, Wolfeboro, NH, July 1983, "Dynamic Shake-Up of Core Electrons".
  • Sixth International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, Interlaken, Switzerland, June 1983, "Planetary Atoms".
  • Gordon Conference on Nonlinear Optics, New London, NH, August 1981, "Doubling of Laser Light in Isotropic Media".
  • Seventh International Conference on Atomic Physics, Cambridge, MA, August 1980, "Two Electron Rydberg States".
  • Annual meeting of the Division of Electron and Atomic Physics, Houston TX, December 1979, "Laser Spectroscopy of Autoionizing States".
  • Winter meeting of the American Physical Society, San Francisco, CA, January 1978, "Applications of Selective Field Ionization of Highly Excited Atoms".
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