Megan Smith with Ken SingerTrap Spectroscopy in Photo-refractive PolymersThe mechanisms of photoconduction are of great interest due to the role of photoconduction in xerography and photorefractive holography. Photoconduction involves the excitation of electrons in response to light, leading, in the case of the materials of interest here, to...
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Andrew Stickrath with Ken SingerOrientational Mobility of Chromophores in Photorefractive Polymer CompositesPolymer composites doped with nonlinear optical species have been shown to have large nonlinear optical susceptibilities, and are of prime interest in the study of photorefraction. These composites consist in part of a moiety responsible for a linear...
Nick Wagner with Kathy KashLaser Trapping and CoolingThe use of lasers to trap and cool neutral atoms has attained temperatures in the millikelvin range. These cold atoms have allowed for high-resolution spectroscopy, increased the accuracy of atomic clocks, and are used to make Bose-Einstein condensates. We intend to build...
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