Exploring the World with the Laser

From quantum transitions to electronic motions (Mandy Singh, MPI Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany).- Nonadiabatic molecular alignment of linear molecules probed by photoelectron ionization yields (Hans Schüssler, Texas A&M Univ, USA).- Ultracold metastable helium: Ramsey fringes and atom interferometry (Wim Vassen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).- Monolayer graphene as dissipative membrane in an optical resonator (Michael Köhl, Univ Cambridge , UK / Univ Bonn, Germany).- Cavity ring-up spectroscopy for dissipative and dispersive sensing in a whispering gallery mode resonator (Síle Nic Chormaic, Okinawa Univ, Japan).- Quantum electrodynamics, high-resolution spectroscopy, and fundamental constants (Savely G. Karshenboim, Mendeleev Institute for Metrology, Russia).- Yb fiber amplifier at 972.5 nm with frequency quadrupling to 243.1 nm (Cory Rasor, Colorado Univ, USA).- Absorption spectroscopy of xenon and ethylene-noble gas mixtures at high pressure: Towards Bose-Einstein condensation of vacuum ultraviolet photons (Christian Wahl, Univ Bonn, Germany).- Ranging with frequency-shifted feedback lasers: from $\mu$m-range accuracy to MHz-range measurement rate (Leonid Yatsenko, Nat. Acad. Sc. Ukraine / Kiew Univ, Ukraine).- Laser phase spectroscopy in closed-loop multilevel schemes (Ennio Arimondo, Univ Pisa, Italy).- Sensitivity and resolution in frequency comb spectroscopy of buffer gas cooled polyatomic molecules (Bryan Changala, Nat. Inst. of Standards (NIST) / Colorado Univ, USA).- Precision measurements and test of molecular theory in highly-excited vibrational states of H_2 _(v=11) (Edcel Salumbides, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).- Quantum regime of a free-electron laser: relativistic approach (Peter Kling, Helmholtz-Center, Dresden, Germany).- Coherence in laser-driven electrons at and in solid matter (Peter Hommelhoff, Univ Erlangen, Germany).- Unexpectedly large difference of the electron density at the nucleus in the 4p 2P1/2,3/2 fine-structure doublet of Ca+ (Piet O. Schmidt, Inst. Experiment. Quantum Metrology, PTB, Braunschweig, Germany).- A 10^15 watt laser for DT Fusion Experiments at Livermore (John F. Holzrichter, Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab / Stanford Univ, USA).- Extraction of enhanced, ultrashort laser pulses from a passive 10-MHz stack-and-dump cavity (Sven Breitkopf, Univ Jena, Germany).- Adjacency Graphs and Long-Range Interactions of Atoms in Quasi-Degenerate States: Applied Graph Theory (Ulrich Jentschura, Missouri Univ, USA).- External Cavity Diode Laser Setup with Two Interference Filters (Patrick Baus. Univ Darmstadt, Germany).- Phase-stable, multi-µJ femtosecond pulses from a repetition-rate tuneable Ti:Sa-oscillator-seeded Yb-fiber amplifier (Tobias Saule, Munich Univ (LMU), Germany).- High-precision spectroscopy of the HD+ molecule at the 1-p.p.b. level (Jeroen Koelemeij, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).- Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical cavity with sub-recoil bandwidth (Andreas Hemmerich, Univ Hamburg, Germany).- Ultrafast optomechanical pulse picking (Nikolai Lilienfein, Munich Univ (LMU), Germany).- Parity-nonconserving interaction induced light shifts in the 7S_{1/2} - 6D_{3/2} transition of the ultracold Fr-210 atoms to probe new physics beyond the standard model (Takatoshi Aoki, Univ Tokio, Japan).- High-accuracy deep-UV Ramsey-comb spectroscopy in krypton (Robert Karl Altmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).- Optical Autler-Townes spectroscopy in a heteronuclear mixture of laser-cooled atoms (Axel Görlitz, Univ Düsseldorf, Germany).- A compact echelle spectrograph for characterization of astro-combs (Rafael Andreas Probst, MPI Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany).- Measuring and imaging nanomechanical motion with laser light (Albert Schliesser, Copenhagen Univ, Denmark).- Shifting the phase of a coherent beam with a Yb-174 ion: influence of the scattering cross section (Markus Sondermann, MPI Science of Light, Erlangen).- Orientational dependence of optically detected magnetic resonance signals in laser-driven atomic magnetometers (Simone Colombo, Univ Fribourg, Switzerland).- T^3-interferometer for atoms (Maxim Efremov, Inst. Quantum Physics, Ulm Univ, Germany).- Playing tricks to ions (Dietrich Leibfried, Nat. Inst. of Standards (NIST) / Colorado Univ, USA).- Frequency-comb based collinear laser spectroscopy of Be for nuclear structure investigations and many-body QED tests (Wilfried Nörtershäuser, Univ Darmstadt, Germany).- Index.... Mehr