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2014 Jan 10

Eric G.

Stochastic Noise in TEM00 Laser Beam Position

Why laser beams don't go straight

2013 Dec 6

Koji A.

A Proposal for an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Oscillator with an Energy-Recovery Linac

Overview of XFELO

High-reflectivity high-resolution X-ray crystal optics with diamonds

Their diamond mirrors

Tunable optical cavity for an x-ray free-electron-laser oscillator

Frequency (wavelength) tuning of the X-ray laser

Sub-Ångström Stabilization of an X-ray Free Electron Laser Oscillator and Nuclear Resonance Metrology

Frequency stabilization with nuclear resonances / X-ray frequency comb

Mößbauer science - x-ray quantum optics with nuclei

X-ray quantum optics / X-ray EIT

2013 November 8

Matt A.

Progress in Lunar Laser Ranging Tests of Relativistic Gravity

Further info Here and Here

2013 October 25

EricQ

Detection of B-Mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope

First detection of gravitational lensing B modes in the CMB

2013 October 18

Manasa

Attractive Optical forces from Blackbody Radiation

Blackbody induces forces stronger than gravity?

2013 Oct 11

Jenne

Improved thermoelectric cooling based on the Thomson effect

Solid state cryogenic cooling

2013 October 4

Larry

Experimental signature of programmable quantum annealing

is dwave really a quantum computer?

2013 September 27

Alastair

Silicon strength

Measurement of strength in Silicon and the implications for 3rd Gen detectors

Sep. 13

Rana

Better Laser Ranging

laser ranging to Mars and beyond

2013 September 6

Tara

The rise of the bosonic laser

a short review

an electrically pumped polariton laser

A report of an electrically pumped polariton laser

Solid State Electrically Injected Exciton-Polariton Laser

Another report from another group

Atom Laser with a cw Output Coupler

laser from Bose-Einstein condensate

2013 August 30

Jamie

Realization of a gravity-resonance-spectroscopy technique

gravity measurements with neutron spectroscopy

2013 August 21

Dmass

Spectral and temporal characterization of a fused-quartz-microresonator optical frequency comb

mm scale resonators from NIST for frequency combs that have a simple and clear fabrication process

2013 August 9

Steve

IC10 X-1/NGC300 X-1: THE VERY IMMEDIATE PROGENITORS OF BH-BH BINARIES

Observational evidence for existence of BBH

2013 August 2

Eric

Monolithic, Unidirectional Single-Mode Nd:YAG Ring Laser, Eigenpolarization Theory of Monolithic Nonplanar Ring Oscillators,Coherent Laser radar at 1.06 microns using Nd:YAG lasers,Stable single-axial-mode operation of an unstable-resonator Nd:YAG oscillator by injection locking,Continuously tunable ir lidar with applications to remote measurements of SO2 and CH4

MISERs, SUNPROs and NPROs - What are they good for?

2013 July 26

Alan

A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary; http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6131/1233232.full ; https://www.dropbox.com/s/pm8s3skyxjaqd7o/Science-2013-Antoniadis-.pdf

potentially very relevant for LIGO tests of GR

2013 July 19

Nicolas

Testing Three-Body Quantum Electrodynamics with Trapped Ti20+ Ions: Evidence for a Z-dependent Divergence Between Experiment and Calculation

Experiments that disagree with QED

2013 July 12

Koji

Detecting High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Optically Levitated Sensors

GW detector with an optically trapped sphere

2013 July 5

No meeting

2013 June 28

Riju

2013 June 21

Leo

2013 June 14

Vivien

Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

Introduction of MCMC methods.

2013 May 31

Matt

Violation of Heisenberg’s Measurement-Disturbance Relationship by Weak Measurements

Paper demonstrating Ozawa's modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

2013 May 24

Manasa

Optical methods for distance and displacement measurements

2013 May 17

Ericq

Phonon Lasing in an Electromechanical Resonator

2013 May 10

Aidan

Solid-state time-of-flight range camera

Early paper from 2001 (a bit more on the mechanics of the CCD)

Lock-in Time-of-Flight (ToF) Cameras: A Survey

3D Cameras

http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/projects/Minora/lange00.pdf.gz

Multi-tap pixel example (page 5-6) : this is an important extension from the original an earlier papers.

PMD Technologies

These guys produce cheap TOF CCDs

Leap Motion

3D ranging technology example

Microsoft Kinect

3D ranging technology example

2013 May 3

Jenne

Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction?

2013 April 26

Larry

original paper, physics today explanation, john preskill blog about the topic, joe polchinski's guest post on cosmic variance

black hole firewalls - the new epr or just theorists having theorist problems?

2013 April 19

Alastair

Invited Review Article: Large ring lasers for rotation sensing

A new review paper on ring laser rotation sensors

2013 April 12

Haixing

Bell's original paper Aspect's experiment

Bell inequality and experimental test

2013 April 5

Rana

EPR paradox

Spooky Action

2013 March 15

Tara

Linewidths below 100 kHz with external cavity diode lasers

ecdl with Littrow configuration

External cavity wavelength tunable semiconductor lasers - a review

a nice review on ecdl, how grating works. A main article for this week

Theory of the Linewidth of Semiconductor Lasers

why diode laser has large linewidth

http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/739.pdf

for noise budget of a diode laser, see fig5

power spectrum of frequency noise of semiconductor lasers with optical feedback from a highfinesse resonator

how optical feedback reduce the line width of diode laser (this prove is for F-P external cavity)

all about gratings

2013, March 1

Jamie

Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters

2013 Feb 21

Dmass

A superconducting focal plane array for ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared astrophysics

Multiplexed MKID array

2013 Feb 1

Alan

Correlated environmental noise in global networks of gravitational-wave interferometers: observations and implications.

Thrane, Christensen, Schofield

2013 Jan 25

Eric

Relationship between wine scores and visible-near-infrared spectra of Australian red wine.

VIS-NIR Spectroscopy and Red Wine

Effect of temperature on the visible and near infrared spectra of wine and the consequences on the partial least squares calibrations developed to measure chemical composition

Temperature effects on PLS calibrations

Near infrared spectroscopic analysis of single malt whisky on an optifluidic chip

NIR Spectroscopy and Whisky

Prediction of sensory properties of espresso from roasted coffee samples by near-infrared spectroscopy

NIR Spectroscopy and Espresso

Feasibility study for the use of infrared spectroscopy in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of green tea, Camellia sinensis (L.)

NIR Spectroscopy and Green Tea Quality

Preliminary study using trace element concentrations and a chemometrics approach to determine the geographic origin of tea

NIR Spectroscopy and Tea Origin

Fri 16-Jan-13

Nicolas

Using High-Power Lasers for Detection of Elastic Photon-Photon Scattering

Nonlinearity in the QED vacuum.

Fri 11-Jan-13

Vivien

Evidence for a Photospheric Component in the Prompt Emission of the Short GRB120323A and its Effects on the GRB Hardness-Luminosity Relation

I would like to focus more on the new multi-component analysis for GRB presented than the particular GRB120323A.