Burcin Bayram

Assistant Professor

Area: Experimental Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Brian Sympson

Project Title: Electron imaging of Cs Rydberg atoms through photoionization

Awards: Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Research, Undergraduate Summer Scholar.

Brian Helbig, 2006-2007

Project Topic: Operation of a BAL using volume Bragg grating in external cavity.

Matthew Briel, fall 2005-2007

Project Topic: Hyperfine quantum beat spectra by direct observation of the time evolution of pump laser profile.

Awards: Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award.

Kyle Bechtel, 2007-2008

Project Title: Construction of velocity focusing for use in electron imaging.

John-Paul Anderson, 2002- 2003

Project Topic: Development of an external cavity laser diodes and dye lasers.

Awards: Undergraduate Research Award, Undergraduate Summer Scholar Award.

Matthew Larosche, summer 2005

Project Topic: Constructing and diagnosing the operation of a high vacuum chamber.

Guy Sibley, fall 2005

 Project Topic: Characteristics of external cavity low power diode lasers in near infrared.

Prakash Koirala,MS' 08

@ Toledo U.

Physics PhD program

Thesis Title: Experimental determination of the electric quadrupole moment and collisional depolarization in the J=3/2 level Cs atoms with Kr using linear polarization spectroscopy.

Ramesh Marhatta,

MS' 07 @ Wesleyan U.

Physics PhD program

Thesis Title: Circular polarization spectroscopy: disorientation cross-section in the 133Cs 6p2P3/2 level by using two-photon two-color nano-second pulsed laserAwards: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.

Brian Sands, MS' 05

@ Wright-Patterson Airforce Base, Ohio, Research scientist,

Thesis Title: Characteristics and dynamics of a passively stabilized high power and narrow-bandwidth broad-areal laser coupled to an external variable length cavity.

Awards: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.

Seda Kin, MS' 05

@ Istanbul Technical U.(ITU), Physics PhD

Thesis Title: Collisional depolarization of the atomic Cs 6s2S1/2 → 10s2S1/2 ,9d2D5/2 transition with argon buffer gas.

Ryan Coons, MS' 06

@ Purdue U., Nuclear Engineering PhD program

Thesis Title: Narrow-bandwidth operation and improved beam quality of a semiconductor broad area laser in an improved variable-length external cavity.

Morgan Welsh, BS'06

worked at Teach for America for 2yrs, now

@ Ohio State U., Physics PhD program

Project Title: Collisional depolarization on the 6s2S1/2- 6p2P3/2- 9d2D5/2 transitions of cesium atoms.

Awards: J.A. Culler Physics Prize, Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Research, Undergraduate Summer Scholar, NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award.

Jacob Hinkle, BS'06

@ U. of Utah, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute PhD

Project Topic: Hyperfine depolarization effects in cesium 2P3/2 level.

Awards: R.L. Edward Physics Scholarship, Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, Dean’s Scholar in Physics.

Bobby Seymour, BS'05

Project Topic: Improvements of the high-power broad-area diode laser design.

Awards: Physics Undergraduate Research Award.

Brian Helbig, undergraduate (transferred)