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Our first graduate student, Yuning Chen, has been selected to receive the prestigious Maria Tzamarioudaki fellowship for her academic and research excellence. She will receive $15K in support for calendar year 2017. Congratulations to Yuning!

We’ve come up with a way to cavity-enhance 2D signals using the natural phase cycling of higher-order cavity modes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08102

Xinlong Li received the runner up poster prize for the Short Wavelength Sources and Attosecond/High Field Physics technical group at the Ultrafast Phenomena 2016 conference. Congratulations Xinlong!

Want to build your own high-power Yb:fiber laser? Here’s how:  http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05234

We have been awarded an early career grant from the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences. A writeup by the University appears here: http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/general/2016-05-04-thomas-allison.php  

Our first paper has now been published, and can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.3.000311

Our first group member, Melanie Reber, has accepted an assistant professor position at University of Georgia in Athens, GA. There, she will start her own research group pursuing  ultrafast optical spectroscopy of gas-phase molecular systems. Congratulations to Melanie!

After a nearly three year period building unique instrumentation, our first paper is submitted. The paper is available on the arXiv pre-print server here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02973

We have recently added an enhancement cavity to the pump beam of our cavity-enhanced spectroscopy experiment, allowing us to excite the molecules about 100x more and realizing the full potential of CETAS.

After a long build, high harmonics are being generated. Without much optimization yet, we are recording about 40 nA of photocurrent from a stainless steel plate and the signal goes away upon insertion of a LiF window, meaning the photon … Continue reading →