Research Highlights
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Highlights (2007-08)  
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MA1.1 HERCULES laser reaches 300 TW power Doc PPT
MA1.2 Electron Acceleration in Laser-Ablated Plasmas Using Ultra Short Laser Pulses Doc Slide PPT
MA1.3 Relativistic Electrons from Laser-Solid Interactions at Kilohertz Repeti-tion Rate Slide
MA1.4 Betatron oscillations in electron beams produced from 200 TW laser interactions Slide PPT
MA1.5 Generation of solitons from the decay of electron plasma waves using the 200 TW HERCULES laser Slide PPT
MA1.6 Relativistic Plasma Shutter for Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses DOC Slide
MA1.7 Generation Of Monoenergetic Proton Beams From Double-layer Foils by Flat-top Laser Pulses DOC Slide
MA2.1 Connecting disparate time-scales: the long and the short of it Slide PPT
MA2.2 Optically Driven Quantum Dot Electrons for Quantum Computing: High speed switching by Rabi oscillations of Optically Driven Quantum Dots Slide PPT
MA2.3 Double-resonance spectroscopy of interacting Rydberg-atom systems DOC Slide
MA2.4 Förster resonance-induced dipole blockade in systems of few Rydberg atoms DOC Slide
MA2.5 State-mixing Rydberg Atom Interactions DOC Slide
MA3.1 Optical Control of Molecular Dynamics Slide PPT
MA3.2 Taking advantage of strong coupling and coherent superposition states in novel Artificial Light Harvesting SystemsOptical Control of Molecular Dynamics Slide
MA3.3 1-D Mott insulator transition of a Bose-Einstein condensate DOC Slide
MA3.4 Bose-Einstein condensate inside a Bragg-reflecting atom cavity DOC PPT
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Highlights (2006-07)  
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1. Optically Driven Quantum Dot Electrons for Quantum Computing: Fast optical initialization of electron spin qubits by spin cooling Slide PPT
2. Optically Driven Quantum Dot Electrons for Quantum Computing: Observation of the Autler-Townes Splitting of the Exciton transition in a Quantum Well

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3. Guiding laser beams in plasmas by radiation cascade compression

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4. Generation of radially polarized THz pulses via velocity mismatched optical rectification

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5. Fastest Waves Ever Photographed

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6. Laser acceleration of monoenergetic protons from ultra-thin foils in the directed coulomb explosion regime

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7. Ultrafast X-rays map forces that bind a solid

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8. Detection of new quantum phases in ultracold atomic gas

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9. Quantum Interference of Two Photons and Photonic Coupling of Atomic Quantum Bits

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10. Bose-Einstein Condensation at the University of Michigan

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11.Coherent X-Rays from a table top femto second source

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Highlights (2005-06)  
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1.Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction Measurements of Nanoscale Thermal Transport  [DOC format] Slide
2.Compression of laser radiation in plasmas via electromagnetic cascading [DOC format] Slide PPT
3. Optically Induced and Detected Spin Coherence: Quantum information storage in a semiconductor quantum dot [DOC format] Slide PPT
4. Ion Trapped on a Semiconductor Chip [DOC format] Slide PPT
5. Implementation of Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm in a Scalable System [DOC format] Slide PPT
6. Atom Counting Statistics in Ensembles of Interacting Rydberg Atoms [DOC format] Slide PPT
7. Calculation of Nonlinear optical signals in liquid solutions via the gen-eralized quantum master equation [DOC format] Slide PPT
8. Effective Hamiltonian for ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice across a Feshbach resonance [DOC format] Slide
9. Number squeezing in a Degenerate Bose Gas [DOC format] Slide PPT
10. Control of nonlinear resonant photochemistry of 1,3-cyclohexadiene in solution [DOC format] Slide PPT
11. Generation of 300 MeV Quasi-Monochromatic Electron Beams from Laser Wakefield [DOC format] Slide PPT
12. Efficient Initiation of Photonuclear Reactions Using Quasi-Monoenergetic Electron Beams from Laser Wakefield [DOC format] Slide PPT
13. HERCULES laser contrast reaches eleven orders of magnitude [DOC format]  
14.Snapshots of Laser Wakefields Using Frequency Domain Holography [DOC format] Slide PPT
15. Coherent Control of Harmonic Generations from exploding clusters [DOC format] Slide PPT
16. Fluorescence Dynamics of Novel Solar and Photovoltaic Materials Investigated with Ultra-Short Pulses Slide
   
Highlights (2004-2005) Print the Entire 2004 Report(pdf)
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1. Bell Inequality Violation between Single Atom and Single Photon
2.Femtosecond x-ray stopwatch
3.Sub-Doppler Cooling in a Raman Optical Lattice (ROL) Geometry
4.Relativistic attosecond optoelectronics
5.Scaling Ion Trap Quantum Computation through Fast Quantum Gates
6. Interfacial Ferroelectrics
7.Bose Einstein Condensate in a Box
8. Coherent Population Transfer of Atoms into Rydberg States
9. Precision Atomic Lifetime Measurement with Fast Laser Pulses
10. Controlling atomic vibrations to isolate anharmonicity
11. Coherent Acoustic Phonons: Propagation Studies and Imaging Applications
12. Second-Harmonic Generation (SHG) using spatially inhomogeneous fs pulses to probe light-emitting nano-interfaces of Silicon nanocrystals
13. Self-similar parabolic beam generation
14. Engineering an artificial atom for longer coherence times: Spin qubits for quantum computing
15. Coherent Optical Control of Spin Coherence

 

Highlights (2003-2004)   Print the Entire 2003 Report(pdf)
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1.Laser-induced proton activation of radionucleides
2. High resolution non-linear spectroscopy in a cold atomic gas
3. Trapping Cavitation Bubbles with Self-Focused Laser Beams
4. “Real” Rabi Flopping on a 111Cd+ Qubit
5. Interactive Internet Classroom
6. New technique reveals atomic structure of films with unprecedented resolution
7. FOCUS achieves quantum entanglement of three electrons
8. Tunneling Mystery Resolved
9. Imaging high energy proton beams from laser plasmas
10. Control of Relativistic Electrons from Laser Plasmas
11. Femtosecond microscopy of ?-size explosions
12. Lithographic Linear Ion Trap
13. FOCUS polarized xenon project
14. Development of Petawatt scale Ti:sapphire laser at 0.05 Hz repetition rate
15. An all-optical quantum gate in a semiconductor quantum dot
16. Raman Laser Cooling
17. Microfocus ultrafast x-rays
18. Coherent Control of Chemical Reactions
19. Coherent Control of Decoherence

 

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