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March 31, 2023 Many of our graduate students presented in William and Mary Graduate Research Symposium! Ziqi Niu shared his work about investigations of anti-parity symmetry breaking in atomic vapor.
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March 31, 2023
We were happy to have Dr. Nate Phillips coming back for a visit! .
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January 31, 2023
First in-person meeting of QNet collagoration: IN, Chen Qian, Shengwang Du and Jianming Wen, during 2023 Photonics West meeting at San Francisco.
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December 12, 2022
It was wonderful to have Jamie McKelvy, our JPL collaborator and AI guru, visiting us at William and Mary, to work on VAMPIRE project with Mario and Eugeniy.
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December 5, 2022
This year several of our group member attended Mid-Atlantic Section APS conference. Here Mario is presenting a poster about our vector magnetometer project.
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November 4, 2022
It was a real pleasure to welcome Dr. Thomas Searles to William and Mary (with Drs. Mumtas Qazilbash and Enrico Rossi).
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August 2, 2022
Spontaneous group reunion during DARPA SAVANT reporting meeting in Boulder, CO.
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July 2022
It was wonderful to finally welcome our LSU theory collaborator Pratik Barge to Williamsburg for two productive weeks of quantum imaging and mode sorting.
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May 31, 2022
We had a blast during DAMOP 2022, meeting old and new friends and our VAMPIRE collaborators.
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May 21, 2022
It has been three years since we had a chance to properly celebrate our graduates and send them off with a proper saluts!
Today we are parting with four group members, and it is truly a bitter-sweet moment. |
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Jiahui Li flipping coasts to collapse his wavefunction at the Cal Tech Applied Physics department (at least for now). |
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Alex Toytyla has decided to flex his experimental musles some more before committing to a formal PhD pursute, working in photonics research at John Hopkins university
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Caitlyn Marat will be helping Amazon's world domination plans. |
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April 22, 2022
This year two of our seniors were supported by
Virginia Space Grant Consortium, and they presented their research
during the VGSC poster session.
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June 14, 2021
Dr. Gleb Romanov, our former grad student, stopped by during his trip to Williamsburg! With Savannah Cuozzo, Nic DeStefano and Rob Behary.
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July 24, 2020
Our former Ph.D student and current NIST researcher, Dr. Matt Simons, stopped by to visit! |
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June 10, 2020
Introducing Dr. Scott Madaras! |
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June 10, 2020
Introducing Dr. Nikunj Prajapati!
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May 3, 2020
This year's graduation activities moved to virtual space, but we couldn't let our graduates to leave without proper goodbye! |
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Alex Fay has decided to put his experimental skills of measuring magnetic field gradients into real use, is joining the staff of Corvid Inc. |
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Kangning Yang is heading across the country to dive deeper into complexity of physics at Stanford University. |
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October 4, 2019
Introducing Dr. Jason Creeden!
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September 16, 2019
Two of our seniors, Kangning Yang and Hana Warner, participated in the Underraduate Research Simposium during the 2019 Frontiers in Optics conference in
Washington, DC. Our grad students, Nik Prajapati and Savannah Cuozzo, also presented at the conference, but without photographic evidence.
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May 12, 2019
Today we are saying goodbye to two of our group members! Ravn Jenkins,
who worked on magnetic field gradiometer is heading to Arizona
to get a Ph.D. in Optics from U of A College of Optics. |
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Austin Kalasky, our quantum imaging expert, is heading to an engineering job in PA.
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March 22, 2019
This year four of our group members presented their work during
the 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium. Aiden Harbick (top left) talked about observated changes in hysteresis curve
in hysteresis curve in VO2 thin film when probed by the optical probes of different frequencies. |
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January 5, 2019
Ravn Jenkins presents her senior research on magnetic gradiometer during
the poster session during the 2019 Optics and Photonics Winter School in the University of Arizona.
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November 29, 2018
Happy smile on the face of Alex Fay after the gradient coil he designed was successfully
fit inside the existing magnetometer magnetic shielding.
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May 13, 2018
Today we are parting to our own superman! Nathan Super,
who mastered the elusive quantum squeezed light in the lab, is heading to the real world for
a successful classical career. |
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March 16 and 17, 2018
Our graduate students shine during the 2018 Graduate Researh Symposium!
Jason Creeden (top left) described his progress in increasing the photoelectric response of VO2 thin films
by controlling the doping of the substrates. Scott Madaras (top right) talked about new way to induce the
structural transition in VO2 via surface plasmon excitations. Savannah Cuozzo (bottom left) presented a poster
about her investigations of vibration-insensitive laser, based on four-wave mixing in Rb. Nik Prajapati (bottom right) used the four-wave
mixing effect for non-classical light generation.
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February 23, 2018
We had several undergraduate group members presenting their research
during the 2018 Undergraduate Research Symposium. Nathan Super
gave a talk about generation of quantum-correlated optical fields via resonant four-wave mixing.
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Our magnetometer team -- Kangning Yang and Hana Warner (top) and
Ravn Jenkins(bottom) presented a poster on their work on precision
magnetic field measurements using Rb vapor.
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January 26, 2018
It was a special pleasure to welcome back a former member of the Quantum Optics
group, Kevin Cox'11, who is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory. Kevin gave a wonderful
colloquium on why quantum entanglement is useful -- or is it?
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September 19, 2017
Our former student, Joe Goldfrank'09, stopped by to see the renovated building and
tell us about his career as a nuclear submarine officer and, recently, a automatic submarine developer at DARPA.
From left to right: Kangning Yang, Irina Novikova, Joe Goldfrank, Eugeniy Mikhailov and Nik Prajapati. |
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May 14, 2017
Today we are saying goodbye to several of our group members! Dr. Mi Zhang will be applying her
years of lab experimence chasing squeezed light into designing optical systems in Shanghai. |
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Melissa Guidry, who successfully tamed first CPT atomic clocks and then single-photon camera,
is heading to Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France as a Fulbright scholar |
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Zach Thomas, our magnetometer guru, is applying for government jobs.
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April 11, 2017
This year Melissa's research in multimode structure in atom-based squeezed vacuum
generation was supported by
Virginia Space Grant Consortium, and she presented her research
during the VGSC conference.
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April 3, 2017
Introducing Dr. Gleb Romanov! |
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March 25, 2017
Our graduate students had a chance to share their research with the world during the 2017 Graduate Research symposium. Demetry talked about
a gyroscope with tailorable dispersion, the project he worked on last summer.
Nik shared his latest results on controlling the four-wave mixing using Raman absorption in a ladder configuration.
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March 20, 2017
Introducing Dr. Mi Zhang!
Dr. Zhang with her Ph.D. adviser Eugeniy Mikhailov and committee members Irina Novikova and Alberto Marino (U. of Oklahoma). |
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February 10, 2017 From left to right: Nik Prajapati, Lauren Aycock and Irina Novikova. |
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September 23, 2016 From left to right: Hebin Li, Melissa Guidry, Mi Zhang, and Eugeniy Mikhailov. |
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June 28, 2016
Introducing Dr. Ellie Radue!
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May 15, 2016
Today we are saying goodbye to four long-term members of our group!
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Both Haley Bauser(left) and Ashna Aggarwal(right) are travelling west:
Haley is starting graduate program in Caltech, and Ashna - at UCLA. |
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Owen Wolfe(top) is heading to Montana State University.
Hunter Rew(bottom) is going to apply to graduate school next year, while working as software engineer at Decisive Analytics.
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April 6, 2016
Brilliant ladies of Quantum optics! Haley Bauser won the Alumni research award given to the senior with the highest demonstrated achievement in physics research. Melissa Guidry received the Clark award, awarded to a rising senior,
who has demonstrated an outstanding aptitude for the study of physics. She is also 2016 Goldwater scholar.
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February 15, 2016
Together with the rest of the world we are celebrating the announcement of the gravitational wave
detection by LIGO collaboration. The best part is that four members of our group (Hunter Rew,
Eugeniy Mikhailov, Gleb Romanov and Mi Zhang) are the co-authors on the seminal PRL detection paper.
Plus, Melissa Guidry spent her summer working for the European gravitational observatory VIRGO. |
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October 16, 2015
Dr. Eden Figueroa (Stony Brook) visited us to discuss wonderful things one can do with warm atoms,
and share his newest results on polarization quantum memory. From left to right: Eugeniy Mikhailov, Eden Figueroa, Irina Novikova, Owen Wolfe, Melissa Guidry, Haley Bauser. |
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October 2, 2015
It is always great to see old friends: Nathan Belcher, who was our group's first undergraduate student, has stopped by. Nathan is currently a physics
teacher in NC, and is working on his Ph.D. in education.
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August 7, 2015
Summer is a busy research time for us,
and the undergraduate members of our team presented the results of
their summer projects during REU poster session.
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June 11, 2015
DAMOP conference in Columbus, OH, gave us a wonderful chance to have a group reunion of some former and some current group members!
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Mi Zhang and Gleb Romanov presented their research during poster session.
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May 17, 2015
Another graduation, and we are wishing best of luck to
Kelly Roman, who will be teaching physics in high schools after finishing another year at WM School of Education. |
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March 20, 2015
Ellie Radue received Award for Excellence in Scholarship
in the Natural and Computational Science during
14th Annual Graduate Symposium.
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February 6, 2015
We were fortunate to have Dr. Alberto Marino from the University of
Oklahoma as our colloquium speaker . |
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July 27, 2014
William and Mary Physics Department hosted 2014 ICAP Summer school, opening its door to more than hundred young researcher from all over the world. |
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July 29, 2014
During the ICAP Summer School we were lucky to have Lukas Slodicka from
Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic) visiting our lab. |
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July 26, 2014
Summers tend to be very busy times in the lab, and this one was not an exception. In addition to our regular team of graduate students, we had four wondeful undergrads!
Donna Taylor is an REU student from Weber university, who developed an optical filter based on Faraday rotation in Rb vapor.
Kelly Roman studied four-wave mixing processes in a paraffin-coated Rb cell.
Owen Wolfe have designed and built several electronic devices to stabalized the frequency of lasers, that are now used in the squeezed vacuum experiment, run by Mi Zhang.
Josh Hill worked on the superluminal gyroscope experiment, but due to untimely death of two lasers he spent some time on electronics.
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July 26, 2014
Thanks to the inter-institutional grant from Women In Scientific Education (WISE)
we were fortunate to have Dr. Elena Kuchina (TNCC)
working with us this summer. During this time we have imprelemted and studied a new interrogation method for atomic CPT clocks and magnetometers.
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June 26, 2014
Introducing Dr. Matt Simons!
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June 3, 2014
Mi Zhang and Gleb Romanov presented their research during poster session at DAMOP'14 in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin
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May 12, 2014
This year we are saying goodbuy to two members of the group:
Jesse Evans(left) will continue his scientific adventures as a graduate student in Dartmouth,
and Joe Scholle(right) is on search for a great programming job. |
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May 2, 2014
We were lucky to have
Dr. Selim Shahriar from Northwestern University visiting and talking about his work
in a colloquium. |
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March 21 and 22, 2014
Three of our graduate students have participated in 2014 Graduate Research Symposium.
Gleb Romanov gave an update on storage time measurements in quantum memory experiment. |
Ellie Radue reported on variation in dynamics of photoinduced metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide thin films at various temperatures.
During the poster session Mi Zhang presented a preliminary results of her studies of spatial mode structure of squeezed vacuum optical field. Our resent graduate, Travis Horrom, who is
currently a postdoc at NIST stop by to say hi. 
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February 28, 2014
Ashna Aggarwal and Haley Bauser presented intermediate results of their experiment on optical properties of vanadium dioxide thin films during 2014 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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February 18, 2014
Jesse Evans presented his senior project on slow and fast light in a ring cavity during 2014 Honors colloquium.
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November 15, 2013
Our colloquium visitor, Prof. John Howell
from the University of Rochester, with his lovely wife Heather, and the
William and Mary AMO group.
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November 8, 2013
It is always great when our group alumni come to visit. Our former undergraduate Will Ames (now a graduate student
at the University of Colorado, Boulder) with out current senior Jesse Evan and senior graduate student Gleb Romanov.
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October 8, 2013
This year we had an all-girl team representing our group at the Frontiers in Optics conference in Orlando, FL! Mi Zhang talked about her experiments
with a donut-shaped squeezed vacuum, and Ellie Radue reported on her investigation of the ultrafast metal-to-insulator phase transition in vanadium dioxide thing films.
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August 21, 2013
We had a wonderful visit with Prof. Igor Sololov from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, and our old friend, Prof. Mark Havey from Old Dominion University.
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May 23, 2013
Our visitor and AMO seminar speaker, Elizabeth Goldschmidt from NIST.
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May 12, 2013
Another graduation, and so many people are graduating from our group today! Dr. Travis Horrom will continue his illustrious career in quantum optics working with Dr. Paul Lett's group in NIST, Geithersburg.
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Evan Crisman is also heading north to start in the master program in medical physics, University of Pennsylvania.
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Matt Argao will also be applying to medical school next year. .
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Bain Bronner is looking for a real job, although there is likely a graduate school in Engineering in his future.
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And congratulations to Mi Zhang who got her Master of Science degree! She was too busy in the lab to get dressed up! :) |
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April 26, 2011
Bain Bronner received an Alumni prize awarded to the Physics senior with the highest demonstrated achievement in physics research.
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March 22 and 23, 2013
All our graduate students have participated in 2013 Graduate Research Symposium. Travis Horrom gave a talk on quantum-enhanced magnetometer. |
During the poster session Mi Zhang described her measurements of squeezed vacuum with unusual transverse profile, while Gleb Romanov reported on faster-than-light squeezed vacuum pulses propagation.
Matt Simons gave a poster update on progress toward non-classical light generation in a whispering gallery mode disc.
Special thanks to Ellie Radue who took most of the photos, and unfortuately, were left photoless herself. Her talk was about effect of substrate on properties of vanadium dioxide films.
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March 14, 2013
Introducing Dr. Travis Horrom!
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February 22, 2013
Bain Bronner and Evan Crisman reported their senior research achievements during 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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February 2, 2013
Matt Simons, Gleb Romanov and Irina Novikova have travelled across the continent to attend 2013 Photonics West conference.
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November 19, 2012
Irina with our collaborator Arturo Lezama (right) and his colleague Horacio Failache (left) during her visit to Arturo's group at the (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay).
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October 27, 2012
Congratulations to Evan Chrisman whose research on anisotropy in Vanadium dioxide thin films received a honorable mention during PhysicsFest'12 student poster competition.
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July 30, 2012
What a busy and productive summer we had! And so many new great people! |
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Joe Sultanis and Mi Zang put together another experimental setup for measuring vacuum squeezing in Rb. By shaping the input laser beam with a phase mask they made a 1-dB vacuum squeezed donut.
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Chris Flint conducted a very colorful investigation of nonlinear frequency generation in Lithium Niobate crystals using various lasers, as well as designed a green balanced photodetector.
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July 8, 2012
Ellie Radue and I took a few trip down to NASA Langley research center to measure Raman spectra of various VO2 films, working with Dr. Buzz Wincheski.
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June 27, 2012
Chris Flint (on photo) and Matt Simons explore the multicolored nonlinear frequency generation in Lithium Niobate crystal using femtosecond laser.
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June 4, 2012
Eugeniy Mikhailov, Travis Horrom and Gleb Romanov presented on DAMOP'12 conference in Orange County, CA.
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May 12, 2012
One more year has passed, and again we are saying goodbuy to two members of the group: Jacob Fry will be applying the graduate programs in physics next year.
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Pavel Zhuravlev is heading to NRL for summer internship, and then to marine training school.
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And congratulations to Ellie Radue who got her Master of Science degree today!
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April 6, 2012 We were fortunate to host Prof. Nergis Mavalvala (MIT) - one of the scientific leaders of LIGO.
From left to right: Katya Mikhailova, Eugeniy Mikhailov, Nergis Mavlavala, Gleb Romanov, Travis Horrom, Irina Novikova, Ellie Radue. |
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March 30, 2012 Bain Bronner has spent a lot of time this semester polishing (and repolishing) CaF whispering-galler mode discs and aligning (and realigning) the coupling setup. Finally his hard work is starting to pay off as he finally was able to observes the cavity modes!
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March 23, 2012 Many physics students have presented their research in the Graduate Research Symposium. Among them was Travis Horrom, reporting latest development in squeezed vacuum generation and manipulation. 
Matt Simons has won the top prize for his research on nonlinear optics in whispering gallery mode resonators. Matt was not able to attend due to injury, but he managed to record his talk to be played in the award session (and it worked!). 
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February 24, 2012 Our senior Jake Fry has presented the progress in development of vector atomic magnetometer during the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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February 13, 2012 We were lucky to have Robi Singh from Prof. Jon Dowling at Luisiana State University.
He worked with Travis Horrom and Eugeniy Mikhailov on demonstrating a quantum magnetometer.
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October 22, 2011
Physicsfest this year was a big success! Eugeniy Mikhailov explains laser operation to interested visitors.
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October 17, 2011
We are adding new color to our palette by generating blue second harmonic light
using KLN from Shasta Crystals.
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September 23, 2011
We had a wonderfully productive and inspiring visit
from Prof. Jon Dowling from Luisiana State University.
From left to right: Gleb Romanov, Kebei Jiang (LSU), Eugeniy Mikhailov, Jonathan Dawling, Irina Novikova, Travis Horrom. |
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August 19, 2011
How many physicists you need to move a laser? At least five!
The 1 mJ femtosecond laser system from Coherent
has finally arrived and will be installed very soon.
From left to right: Gleb Romanov, Pasha Zhuravlev, Travis Horrom, Matt Simons, Eugeniy Mikhailov. |
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June 24, 2011
Introducing Dr. Nate Phillips!
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May 16, 2011
Another bittersweet moment: two more people are graduating! |
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David Gribbin (aka Quint) will be spending next year preparing for law school exams meanwhile, he stays with us for another
month to help keep experiments running.
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May 6, 2011
We had a very short by very interesting visit from two LSU graduate students,
working with
Prof. Jon Dowling . Another student of his - Robi - worked with us last semester on PSR squeezing experiment.
From left to right:Robi Singh (LSU), Kebei Jiang (LSU), Nate Phillips (WM), Gleb Romanov (WM), Kaushik Seshadreesan (LSU), Matt Simons (WM), and Travis Horrom (WM).
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April 26, 2011
Kevin Cox received an Alumni prize awarded to the Physics senior with the highest demonstrated achievement in physics research.
Below, Kevin with Physics Department chair Keith Griffioen at the award ceremony.
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April 18, 2011
This year the work of two of our students were supported by
Virginia Space Grant Consortium, and they presented their finding during the VGSC conference in Newport News.
Matt Simons
gave a talk on the nonlinear optics in cristalling whispering gallery mode resonator, and Kevin Cox (photo below) presented a poster
about his work on the idea of an atomic vector magnetometer.
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February 18, 2011
This year two of our undergraduate students participated in 12th undergraduate research symposium.
Kevin Cox (top) gave a talk about development of a vector magnetometer based on EIT in Rb vapor,
and David Gribbin (bottom) presented a poster about production and coupling of whispering gallery mode resonator discs.
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October 1, 2010
It is always great to see old friends, and we were delighted to
welcome Yuri Rostovtsev (U. of North Texas) and his wife Natasha in Williamsburg.
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September 30, 2010
Past summer was very busy with work and travel. Our squeezing experiment has travelled
100 miles south to Old Dominion university, where in collaboration with Prof. Mark Havey we've attempted to see squeezing
in cold atomic clowd. Dr. Arturo Lezama joined us in early September for the final push. Although we didn't get many dB
of squeezed light, the results are definitely encouraging, and we've learned a lot!
The squeezing team (from left to right):Arturo Lezama,
Eugeniy Mikhailov, Mark Havey, Salim Balik, Travis Horrom.
The real squeezing team with the experimental apparatus.
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June 7, 2010
We were very happy to have a chance to welcome
our long-term collaborator, Dr. Alexey Gorshkov, before he moves to West coast to start his postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech Institute for Quantum Information.
From left to right: Gleb Romanov, Irina Novikova, Nate Phillips, Alexey Gorshkov.
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May 16, 2009
Here is this day again when we say bood-bye to two our recent graduates. |
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Paul Stubbs is shifting his focus from physics to finances, and continues
in the master program in Accounting here, at the College of William and Mary.
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Peng Xu has received his Master of Physics degree today as well.
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April 16, 2010
Our guest colloquium speaker Dr. Karen Sauer with Seth Aubin and Eugeniy Mikhailov in the hall oh
the new research wing of Small hall.
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March 26, 2010
This page has started with pictures of an empty lab, and it is time to show them again.
Except this time these are the pictures of our new lab in recently (and not completely) finished research wing of Small
hall. We should be moving in approximately one week.
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February 26, 2010
This year two of our undergraduate students participated in 11th undergraduate research symposium.
Kevin Cox (top) presented a poster about his work on developing a campas magnetometer based on EIT,
and Francesca Fornasini (bottom, with Justin Vazquez and Ryan Zielinski) gave a talk about her work toward new imaging technique
of ultracold atoms using four-wave mixing.
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February 4, 2010
Our good friend and collaborator Dr. Arturo Lezama (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) visited us again. He and Travis Horrom spent a lot of hours working on the polarization self-rotation squeezing experiment.
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December 11, 2009
Our distinguished visitor Prof. Dmitry Budker (UC Berkeley) with Seth Aubin, Irina Novikova and Eugeniy Mikhailov.
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November 6, 2009
In attempt to increase the number of (potential) women in science we are pleased to present the newest group member: Alyssa Mikhailova.
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October 6, 2009
While most of our research involves pretty sophisticated and expensive equipment, sometimes a simple iron becomes a research apparatus. Kevin Cox spent last couple week learning how to make printed boards from scratch using iron and laser printer. Looks like we have a first success!
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June 3, 2009
Prof. Mark Havey, our old friend from Old Dominion University, and Dr. Dmirty Kupriyanov, our new friend from St. Petersburg Politechnic University, visited us today for a productive afternoon of physics discussions.
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May 17, 2009
Graduations are always bitter-sweet, and today we are saying bood-bye to two members of the group who were with us almost from the very beginning of the lab. William Ames is heading to the graduate program in Physics in the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Joseph Goldfrank is following his life-long dream - to be an officer at a nuclear submarine. First step after college - U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School, and then Naval Nuclear Power School.
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And luckily, we still don't need to part with this guy for a few years - Matt Simons got his Master of Science degree today!
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May 8, 2009
Dr. Yanhong Xiao, former colleague of Irina at CfA and now a professor at Fudan University (China) visited our group and presented an AMO seminar.
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April 3, 2009
Dr. Svetlana Malinovskaya (Stevens Institute of Technology) visited our department to give a colloquium. She was particularly impressed by our solar cell project.
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April 2, 2009
Nathan Belcher, who has graduated from our group in December 2008, is now a science teacher in the Williamsburg Christian Academy, and today he brought his Physics class for the tour of our department.
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February 27, 2009
Two students in our group participated in campus-wide undergraduate research symposium. Joe Goldrfank (top) presented a poster about his research on the nonlinear magneto-optical polarization rotation, and Will Ames (bottom) gave a talk about his studies of optical vortices.
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January 21, 2009
Dr. Alvin Compaan(University of Toledo) visited William&Mary to share the details of his research on photovoltaics and solar energy.
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October 31, 2008
Dr. George R. Welch (Texas A&M University) - the academic father of
Irina and Eugeniy - visited our lab.
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October 30, 2008
What has started as a hopelessly optimistic proposal to the Army Research Office 14 months ago finally materialized in the form of brand new Ti:Sapphire laser. This laser will be shared between ours and Dr. Seth Aubin's research groups.
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October 2, 2008
Dr. Arturo Lezama (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) is visiting us this week to help us with better understanding of the polarization self-rotation squeezing.
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September 19, 2008
Any birthday requires a party, and today we celebrated the birth of the College of William&Mary Student Chapter of the Optical Society of America. |
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August 1, 2008
Today we were saying good-bye to two wonderful summer REU students: Martha Roseberry (College of Wooster) and Tom Noel (U. of Wisconsin). Both of them accomplish a lot for the short 10 week! Martha built an optical network that connets our laboratory with the laboratory of Dr. Seth Aubin for future sharing of a Ti:Sapphire laser. |
Tom conducted a very detailed experimental study of quantum noise properties near atomic resonance. He is also a current world-wide record holder on polarization self-rotation squeezing: -1.2dB below the shot noise limit. (Ok, may be the number is not too impressive, but hey! - that's the best for our method!)
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July 28, 2008
We've been so busy here this summer, we didn't even have time to post anything! Here is our hard-working summer crew - at work and at Sunday cookout.
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June 17, 2008
Dr. Matt Eisaman (NIST) visited W&M to give a special
AMO seminar
and to teach us how to properly store and count photons.
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May 30, 2008
This year our group presented the results of the squeezing experiement
and stored light optimization experiment at DAMOP conference that took place at State College, PA. On the photo below
Nate Phillips explains the magic of slow light to unidentified physicist.
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May 21, 2008
Recently we have submitted two papers describing our work
on stored light optimization: arXiv:0805.3348 and arXiv:0805.1927!
To celebrate the occasion we have recreated the William&Mary logo: we
send a "W" into a vapor cell, and it was magically transformed into "M" at the output after being optimally stored
in atomic spins.
In addition it turned out that the photo of AMO group
in William&Mary has been featured at June 2008 Optics&Photonics News magazine! |
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May 11, 2008
Congratualations to Nathan Belcher, who suceesfully complete his work for
BS in Physics! Since Nathan will officially graduate only in December, he will stay with us for the summer
to more exciting work on atomic clocks!
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April 9, 2008
Congratulations to Nate Phillips for winning the first place in Physical sciences
in the student poster competition during Hampton Roads
2008 Research Expo. (Left) Our team together with Dr. Seth Aubin's group members at the poster session.
(Right) The happy winner a minute after the prizes were announced.
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March 28, 2008
Dr. Carlos Lopez-Mariscal (NIST) visited our department. Carlos
gave two presentation: an information session about Optical Society of America (OSA)
stident-related programs, and an AMO seminar on optical tweezers with evanescent waves.
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March 21, 2008
Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)
visited our lab during his visit to W&M.
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February 13, 2008 Very productive week for our group! First news is that the first paper based solely on the experimental results from our lab in William and Mary. E. E. Mikhailov and I. Novikova, "Low-frequency vacuum squeezing via polarization self-rotation in Rb vapor," submitted to Opt. Lett. (2008). |
Second news - we have a home-made atomic clock working in the lab!
We can lock frequency of rf oscillator to CPT resonance and improve its stability more than two orders of
magnitude. The overall stability is not great, and we will be working on improving it with
clever CPT resonance schemes.
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December 21, 2007
Will Ames is conducting the experiment which will
use optical vortices phase masks
for optical filtering. The intensity distributions of a laser beam passed through
the phase mask with and without interference are shown in Figs. (a) and (b) for a single m=1 vortex,
and two vortices close to each other in Figs. (c) and (d).
The phase mask is generously lended to us by Dr. Grover Swartzlander (University of Arizona).
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December 7, 2007
A long overdue picture of Dr. Charles Sukenik (ODU): he visited
us in September, but had to come again for a picture.
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November 9, 2007
Dr. Ron Walsworth (Harvard) inspects the lab during his visit.
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October 19, 2007
Our visitor, Dr. Frank Narducci (Naval Air Systems Command).
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October 6, 2007
Our senior student Nathan Belcher presents a poster
about his VCSEL work during the annual Celebration of Summer Research symposium.
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July 9, 2007
We have successfully
demonstrated efficient high-frequency modulation of a VCSEL laser.
This system will be used in atomic clock experiment.
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June 29, 2007
Of coarse, summer is the busiest time in the labs, but
we like to have some fun too! On Friday nights AMO group relaxes by making ice-cream using liquid nitrogen.
The goal of this experiment - to find the best flavors!
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March 30, 2007
Dr. Bill Phillips (NIST) visited our lab during his
visit to W&M.
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March 23, 2007
Drs. Seth Aubin, Irina Novikova and Eugeniy Mikhailov with our visitors -
Dr. Mark Havey from Old Dominion University, and Dr. Alexey Trifonov, MagiQ.
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February 2007
Slow/stored light experiment is operational!
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December 2006
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November 2006
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